Word: warren
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...shaving foam is a sensible way to earn a living. The second question is tougher. But apart from Alex Garland's classic novel The Beach, the books I see most tourists reading in Thailand are the his-and-hers prison memoirs The Damage Done (convicted Australian heroin trafficker Warren Fellows' account of life in Bang Kwang Central Prison) and Forget You Had A Daughter (by British smuggler Sandra Gregory). Wherever you go in the country, you find foreigners sipping cocktails on beautiful white-sand beaches and reading about how horrible the place...
...from the only plaintiff who has filed hundreds of lawsuits under the ADA in California. A significant number of people who sue under the ADA have legitimate grievances and appear to be motivated by a sincere desire for access rather than monetary gain. However, according to David Warren Peters, CEO and general counsel of Lawyers Against Lawsuit Abuse, a small group of opportunists and select law firms are responsible for a huge percentage of the lawsuits. "I've seen plaintiffs that make Jarek Molski look like a Cub Scout," says Peters, whose San Diego-based firm represents and consults businesses...
...Warren, Rick •anti-gay language is removed from website of •gay thrift shop is visited...
...hard to pick up a paper these days without reading about Barack Obama courting the right. On Wednesday, his Inauguration committee announced that the non-partisan but socially conservative Evangelical Rick Warren would give the invocation Jan. 20 when Obama is sworn in as President. Bloomberg reports that moderate Republican Jim Leach of Iowa has been representing Obama at White House talks on the economy. And last Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Obama is being advised by foreign policy heavyweight Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser under the first President Bush and described by the Times...
...conversations with Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz and former deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and both men describe their conversations positively. But an Obama transition aide, when pressed about these contacts, admits that it is "not fair to put them in the category of advisers." Rick Warren and Obama are not particularly close: Obama has had only tangential contact with him over the years and disagrees with him on aspects of some social issues including abortion and gay rights...