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...novel called The Gift Bag Chronicles. ?It's kind of sad. It's greed on display,? says De Vries. And the virus, she says, has spread beyond celebrities. ?There are tons of reporters who won't go to events if the bag isn't up to snuff. If they show up, the publicist can say this media outlet was here. And they can hand that list to the corporate client.? I have finally found a class I can teach at journalism school...
...helped other freedom movements in the region. In Egypt, for example, President Hosni Mubarak relented and this year allowed the country to hold its first ever multiparty presidential election. But if Iraq ends up in chaos after a U.S. military drawdown, the instability could spread to its neighbors--and snuff out any hopes of freedom flowering elsewhere in the Arab world...
...shot in Game Three, in what was his first World Series at-bat. And in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Four, shortstop Juan Uribe made a defensive marvel of a play by hurling himself into the left-field seats to grab a foul ball, thereby helping snuff out a Houston threat to a fragile Sox lead...
...weeks ago, Harvard was down 21-20 in the third quarter to Holy Cross—a team that just wasn’t up to snuff against the Crimson offense—before Harvard put 11 on the board in the fourth quarter...
...seems a routine job--offing a corrupt city official. It's the second part of the contract, belatedly revealed to him, that shatters his composure. He's supposed to kill a 12-year-old-girl. To Ledda she's an innocent, and it offends his killer's code to snuff her out. When he discovers that the child has been prostituted by her father and that her chief client is the son of a highly placed government official, Ledda switches sides. He was himself an abused child--it's the reason he chose to live outside...