• An instinctive liberal - he was for 25 years also the much-admired chief US correspondent of the Guardian newspaper - he may not have shown much sympathy towards the Reagan presidency, but his main purpose was to be interesting, enlightening and entertaining.

    BBC: Magazine

  • In a question-and-answer session on the website of the Guardian newspaper, he said there had been threats against his life.

    BBC: Cyber attack forces Wikileaks to change web address

  • Robert Brown, a former police sergeant, told the Guardian that he pulled out of the recruitment process for the Games after seeing it close at hand.

    FORBES: Report From Inside The Olympic Security Mess: No Schedules, No Uniforms And No Training

  • Early in the Tour, Wiggins raged about anonymous skeptics on Twitter, chiding them for "bone-idleness, " but later in the race he wrote a piece in The Guardian in which he described his cycling ascension and his rejection of performance-enhancing drugs.

    WSJ: Tour de France: The Brits Rule World of Wheels - Bradley Wiggins

  • Polly Toynbee of the Guardian accused Charles Moore, editor of the Daily Telegraph, of wilful misinterpretation after he wrote a long attack on the report.

    ECONOMIST: Debating Lawrence

  • Writing in the Guardian, he said the "hardcore" of those involved were known criminals whose behaviour had not been changed by previous punishments.

    BBC: Ken Clarke says riots 'legacy of broken penal system'

  • John O'Shea of Irish charity Goal told the Guardian newspaper he could not allow aid workers to move into Haiti from the Dominican Republican because he had "no guarantee that the people driving them are not going to be macheted to death on the way down".

    BBC: What is delaying Haiti's aid?

  • During that tenure, he has stood as an impartial guardian of the law.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on WV Mine Tragedy and Justice Stevens

  • He told the Guardian he made the switch after the backers of a proposed British bid to enter the competition appeared to reach a standstill in development.

    BBC: Ainslie's decision is a blow to British hopes

  • The unanswered question is why Mr Aitken should have taken such a huge risk in denying the Guardian's claim that as minister of defence procurement he had stayed at the hotel as a guest of the Saudi royal family.

    ECONOMIST: Jonathan Aitken

  • "It is totally unacceptable for bank bonuses to be paid on the back of taxpayer guarantees, " he told the Guardian.

    BBC: Bankers defend culture of bonuses

  • The Guardian quotes a friend of one of the miners who says he was just trying to provide for his family - "people don't go mining for fun", he says.

    BBC: Newspaper review: Arrest of UBS rogue trader dominates

  • He also said he was unaware, initially, of a Guardian report that blasted the piece.

    CNN: A steady rise, a fast fall for BBC's George Entwistle

  • Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian, gave the story his staunch support partly because he had for years been arguing that the U.K. press inadequately policed its own standards and would eventually be punished.

    FORBES: Meet The Man Who Took Down Rupert Murdoch's British Empire

  • Mr Gove told the Guardian newspaper he wanted to "remove bureaucracy" affecting expansion as part of planned changes to the admissions code.

    BBC: Gove plan to ease expansion for popular schools

  • Later, speaking to the Guardian newspaper, he said the UK should look at following the example of the US if Scotland did break away.

    BBC: Wales politics

  • One of those could be the Royal Bank of Scotland, whose chief executive Stephen Hester has told the Guardian newspaper that he expects his bank to face penalties.

    BBC: Barclays

  • He is the youngest member of the French Academy, the official guardian of the language of Voltaire and Flaubert.

    ECONOMIST: The French language

  • He also said there had been some success with the use of "guardian angels" - Nato soldiers who provide a round-the-clock armed guard for their colleagues while they are training their Afghan counterparts.

    BBC: General Sir Richard Shirreff

  • The explanation offered by the book, due for publication this October, is that he was trapped into a series of ever-escalating lies by the Guardian's determination to nail him for breaching cabinet rules on hospitality.

    ECONOMIST: Jonathan Aitken

  • He insisted, like an American teenager who's signed the "True Love Waits" vow of celibacy until their wedding day, that we must be patient, stop fumbling and hold on for the manifesto, while fluttering his eyelids so that we all know that he's been round the back of the bike shed with the Guardian, and it's all true.

    BBC: Tattooists and tax

  • He was surrounded by guys in Mets and Yankees caps in a phalanx of guardian angels.

    NPR: Reports from McCain, Romney, Giuliani Camps in Fla.

  • Goodnight is a stalwart guardian of that culture, so valuable for recruiting talent in this fast-moving competition, but he is also 68.

    FORBES: SAS-We Spurned IBM, Now To Win

  • "He's a dealmaker, he's a brilliant businessman, he's a great strategic mind, " Michael White, of the UK's Guardian newspaper, which broke the hacking story, told CNN.

    CNN: Rupert Murdoch: The last press baron

  • He and the Tories had nothing to say on the subject of bonuses to FSA during their consultation on the subject but because he was being interviewed by the Guardian, he says what he thinks Guardian readers want to hear.

    BBC: Bankers defend culture of bonuses

  • Friday's share price drop came after High Court judge Mr Justice Vos, who has presided over similar cases brought against News International, said that he would handle all four of the cases against Trinity Mirror, according to reports in the Guardian and Independent newspapers.

    BBC: Trinity Mirror shares slide on hacking allegations

  • Paperwatch: Jackie Ashley writing in The Guardian likens possible contender Kenneth Clarke to the late Mo Mowlam in terms of his popular appeal and warns Labour that he could well be the one to pull in the votes of "floating voters, disaffected ex-Tories and disillusioned ex-Labour voters".

    BBC: David Cameron

  • While there have been a number of attempts to unmask the artist -- a Jamaican photographer said he snapped images of Banksy when he visited the island and a reporter at U.K.'s "Guardian" newspaper said he met Banksy (or at least someone claiming to be him) -- they've been exercises in futility.

    CNN: Banksy: Still hiding in plain sight

  • He is what is known as a "guardian angel", protecting his comrades from the increasing threat of insider attacks.

    BBC: Afghanistan: How will all the sacrifice be remembered?

  • "Even though there was a lot of grit blowing around, grip levels on the track were not too bad, " he told the Guardian.

    BBC: Marc Gene testing a Williams at Barcelona

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