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Lies caused a stir this summer when News Corporation’s Fox News Channel sued to have their trademark phrase “Fair and Balanced” and the image of the channel’s commentator, Bill O’Reilly, removed from the book’s cover. Penguin books, Franken’s publisher, accelerated the launch of the book to capitalize on the publicity surrounding the suit...
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore created a national stir Aug. 23 when he was suspended for ignoring a federal court order to remove a 5,280-lb. granite monument of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama judicial building rotunda. Moore had placed the sculpture, known as "Roy's Rock," there late one night in 2001. Moore may be removed from office, and the judge wants to have his case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. What do you think? Should Moore be fired from the bench, or is this insufficient grounds for dismissal...
...would be hard pressed to rememeber another virus that has created this much of a stir this quickly,” Davis said. “Just walking around the Science Center, you couldn’t walk past a group of people talking and hear them talking about anything but the virus...
...what the pitfalls are, what do we have to do from now?" Dean says. "I think we just have to keep doing what we are doing." It's working, all right. But now that Dean has proved to Democrats that he can stir their passions, there's one more thing he must do: convince them that he can win. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr./Washington
TACONY, PHILADELPHIA—On my first day in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia, the murder of a local man caused a stir, but it wasn’t the violence that had people upset. In a city where 288 murders last year marked a 17-year low, people don’t get too upset about one more. Rather, the outrage was directed at the press for misreporting the crime’s location as Tacony, when everyone knew that it happened in Mayfair, the next neighborhood over...