Word: walt
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...refusal to fire Mike Wooten the reason Palin fired Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan? Not exclusively, and it was within her rights as the states' chief executive to fire him for just about any reason, even without cause...
...harsh verdict? Consider the report's findings. Not only did people at almost every level of the Palin administration engage in repeated inappropriate contact with Walt Monegan and other high-ranking officials at the Department of Public Safety, but Monegan and his peers constantly warned these Palin disciples that the contact was inappropriate and probably unlawful. Still, the emails and calls continued - in at least one instance on recorded state trooper phone lines...
...unfashionable to play around with sounds the way Mark Twain did or Walt Whitman did. Whitman prided himself on being untranslatable, but it seems to me that lots of writers today write for the global market, which means they write a kind of very unshowy, clean prose that doesn't bounce around and have a lot of rambunctious...
...Fight to End Maternal Deaths Thanks to Vivienne Walt for the thought-provoking article on maternal mortality in Freetown and the whole developing world [Sept. 29]. This issue is a priority for our people, and we will be committed to staying the course until we see results. But governments definitely have a central role, and citizens around the world need to bring this to their attention. Keep up the good work! Rashid Abdulai, Freetown, Sierra Leone...
Give the Robertses credit. They're staying in the game at a moment when Time Warner is spinning off its 15 million cable subscribers. Since its failed bid for the Walt Disney Co. in 2004, Comcast has returned to its roots as a program distributor, smartly upgrading its cable systems so it can offer hundreds of digital channels as well as high-def TV, video on demand, and broadband and telephone service. The company is also shelling out $1 billion--along with other companies like Time Warner Cable, Google and Intel--to fund a wireless Internet venture formed by Sprint...