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...American Right, an assault on the media, spent eight weeks at the top of the Times best-seller list and rekindled the debate on whether reporters show a liberal bias. Slander was followed in 2003 by Treason, and by then Coulter had inspired an industry of debunkers, people who scour her every utterance for mistakes large and small. Entire websites were devoted to this purpose...
...flew in," says Lieut. Dave Moffet, "but it's getting better." The helicopters head off for the villages, each one delivering 2,000 to 3,000 lbs. of food, medical supplies, communications equipment and even a few toys and some candy for the children. Along the way, their crews scour the countryside, looking for isolated hamlets that have yet to receive help and for displaced people straggling along roads. When they come across those who are sick or wounded, they ferry as many as possible to the field hospital. "We're seeing a lot of dehydration, diarrhea, lacerations and people...
...spending millions to bring to London distinctive regiments of George V's loyal troops from all quarters of the Empire, as was done for Queen Victoria's fabulous Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Last week the Cabinet too late regretted such parsimony. Frantic efforts were afoot to scour London for resident Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, Indian and other Empire ex-soldiers who might be able to get their War-time uniforms spiffed up and join some portion of the Royal Jubilee...
...these types," he says. "We catch them through other methodology - not by using their credit cards, as they were found this time." To avoid detection, pedophiles are likely to keep changing their tactics. But Rouse and his colleagues will be trying to anticipate their moves - and continuing to scour the most harrowing corners of the Internet for the evidence with which to bring them down...
Undeterred, Klein would continue to scour the campus for other female undergraduates similarly vexed by the prevalence of men in Harvard’s rock scene. By her second semester, she had put together the five-piece band that would become Plan B for the Type...