Word: tape
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...though he will not say how much). But instead of proudly wallowing in the tabloid tradition of checkbook journalism, he sounds defensive about it. "We are not the first news-gathering organization to pay for interviews," he says. He claims the story is true because the Star has obtained tapes of telephone conversations between Flowers and the Arkansas Governor, but then refuses to have them verified independently by releasing them to other news organizations. The brief excerpts of the tape that reporters were permitted to listen to last week establish nothing by themselves...
...give [the tape] to our CriminalInvestigation Division and see what they can do,"said Harvard police Sgt. William Donaldson...
...Jacques Derrida's Cinders. It takes some setting up. When he published the French texts Feu la Cendre and "Animadversions" (one on the left side of the page, the other on the right-- this is the kind of thing Derrida is always doing), he was asked to do a tape recording of the text...
...joke. Derrida wonders "what is a word for consuming itself all the way to its support (the tape-recorded voice or strip of paper, self-destruction of the impossible emission once the order is given) to the point of assimilating it without apparent remainder?" Buried in that parenthesis (and several other places) is an allusion to Mission Impossible: this tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds. I thought it was funny...
...group urging the north to secede from a central government that was bleeding it for the sake of the poorer south. But voters up and down the peninsula are attracted by the league's message of opposition to corruption and confusion in high places, to government taxation and red tape, and to every social ill from joblessness and drug peddling to immigration. Bossi and some of his allies have voiced views toward dark-skinned immigrants that are as racist as any in Europe...