Word: wouldn
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...blast of agitprop, Guzzanti, a handsome, passionate defender of her right to say what she wants, summarizes her case, quotes from attacks on her ("Madwoman"; "Tale Your Money and Shut Up") in Berlusconi-owned newspapers and ambushes politicians from Center-Left and Center-Right, who either supported Berlusconi or wouldn?t fight him. (Her father, one of her victims reminds her, is a Center-Right official. She replies, "I?m a grownup. I don?t have to ask permission...
...these criticisms before. To laud Colbert for saying them seems to me, a card-carrying lefty, to be settling. Colbert's defenders might aim for the same stinging criticisms to be issued not from the Hilton ballroom but from the dais in a Senate Judiciary committee hearing. And I wouldn't really care if they were funny...
...will continue to treat the Queen with the respect she has earned and so richly deserves. David Hipshon Twickenham, England In your excellent article on Her Majesty, "A Woman's Work Is Never Done," you quoted a man saying about Elizabeth's position, "Helluva job she's got. I wouldn't want it." That reminds me of the retort an old northern English countryman made about the job: "I never saw it advertised." John McLeod Saskatoon, Canada I must take exception to the questions raised about the relevance of the British monarchy. Quite the contrary! Anyone watching President George...
...Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said the city would request that 3,000 soldiers from the Louisiana National Guard be brought in as an evacuation commenced, both to prevent the widespread looting that happened after Katrina, and to assure evacuating residents that their homes and businesses wouldn?t fall victim to looting. Ebbert said the point was ?to create an atmosphere in our city where it makes more sense for everybody to leave rather than stay...
...Even those who did not advocate boycotting school or work were still able to participate in the day's events. In Los Angeles and New York City, rallies were scheduled for 4 p.m., so school-age kids wouldn't miss classes. Still others planned to attend church services or to join the protests during their lunch breaks. Rather than simply walk off the job, some workers requested paid time off or shifted their regular work schedule to later in the day. Orlando Garcia, a native of Honduras who now owns a trucking business in Miami, took...