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West, Kanye • boorishness of earns the sobriquet "jackass" from President Obama prior to a CNBC interview, news of which is tweeted by ABC's Terry Moran, after which said tweet is quickly apologized for and removed by ABC News because it was an "off-the-record" comment, after which video of the comment is posted by Politico's Ben Smith, after which said video is quickly removed by Politico because of something to do with being "respectful to a fellow news-gathering operation," but obviously there's no way such a thing can be kept hidden so here...
...took a special brand of cruelty to stand out amid the horrors of the Holocaust, but "Ivan the Terrible" was no ordinary sadist. As a Nazi guard, Ivan earned his sobriquet by ushering thousands of prisoners - sometimes hacking them with a sword as they passed - into the gas chambers at Poland's Treblinka death camp. After the war, he vanished. Decades later, in the late 1970s, U.S. authorities fingered a suspect: John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker residing in a Cleveland suburb...
...sobriquet suggests, the fiscal blueprint will not be conclusive. A finalized set of recommendations will be released later this semester...
...conscious of corporeality: “Two more inches I’da been in that casket / According to the doctor I could of died in traffic.” This paradox—and his delusions of grandeur—are perhaps best embodied by that self-given sobriquet: “best rapper alive.” Government I Can Trust This Brother: Nas and Obama’s Politics of Hope Primary source: “Black President.” Prospectus: Jay-Z may have been a “Black Republican...
Zardari always had a reputation for wheeling and dealing. When he was Investment Minister during Bhutto's second term, his alleged involvement in kickback scandals earned him the sobriquet "Mr. 10%." He spent 11 years in prison on charges of corruption, extortion and the murder of Bhutto's brother (a political rival), although he has never been convicted. In April he was finally acquitted of the murder charge. Pakistani governments led by both Bhutto's rival, Sharif, and Musharraf pursued money-laundering and corruption cases against Zardari in Britain, Spain and Switzerland. All charges were dropped last fall after...