• Mr Uribe is open to dialogue with the warring factions, saying in his victory address that he would talk to them if they called a ceasefire and stopped terrorist attacks.

    BBC: Analysis: Uribe's challenge

  • This was the guy, remember, who in 2005 offered an amendment to remove funds from a little thing he called the Alaskan "Bridge to Nowhere" and to divert them to a vital bridge destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

    WSJ: Strassel: Jumping the Sequester

  • These interviews were poorly taped, and Vivian spent her days winding the tape recorder back and forth in order to see if a husband had said that he loved children or loathed them, or if a wife had called herself infertile or infantile.

    NEWYORKER: Temporary

  • To help them do so, he came up with a service called txteagle which distributes small jobs via text messaging in return for small payments.

    ECONOMIST: A way to earn money by texting

  • Chapman's father, Wilbur -- retired from the Air Force after 21 years -- said his son called them Christmas morning on a satellite phone, saying he was sorry not to be with his wife and children.

    CNN: Killed soldier devoted to family, country, parents say

  • In 2006 he called a meeting with the steel magnates of the country to ask them what else he had to do get their business.

    FORBES: On the Right Track

  • But he is backing them up with his latest effort--a company called ClearNova --to create a software development environment to build AJAX applications.

    FORBES: Mapping The Web's Future

  • Mahathir has always argued that Asia's economic troubles were caused by fickle international investors (or, as he called them recently, "funnymentals, intelligent humans behaving like silly animals in a herd"), not a lack of financial transparency and accountability and certainly not because of a lack of democracy.

    CNN: DEMOCRACY CALLS

  • But while Labour MP for Bassetlaw John Mann, who represents the area, called the safety record of level crossings a "scandal", he felt replacing them with bridges or tunnels was not practical.

    BBC: Misson Springs level crossing crash girl Emma Lifsey dies

  • He runs a charity called 'Recycle' which saves bicycles from being thrown away and sends them to Africa where they can be refurbished and reused.

    BBC

  • In April, after the boy had not returned for the second course, Bostrom called the family and left a message threatening to report them for child neglect, he said.

    CNN: Father appeals to his wife to return with their cancer-stricken son

  • He was a board member of a packet analysis company called Narus and, a year after two Narus engineers left to start Skyrider, he joined them as chief executive in 2005.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr Bush has called for a moratorium on the sale of uranium technologies to countries without them, but he has winked at Brazil's decision to build a uranium-enrichment plant.

    ECONOMIST: Diplomacy and proliferation

  • He had been hired to work on a class of immune-system proteins called interleukins, but he had a better idea: He proposed, instead, that the two of them work on cloning the receptors for TNF.

    FORBES: The Maverick and the Maestro

  • Yet a government memorandum indicates that he met with them after the Clatskanie-Seattle fires when they called him down for correcting misinformation in their communiques.

    FORBES: 'Greeny Lying Bastards' and Other Carbon Disinformation

  • While McCain and Obama jointly called for bipartisan cooperation on the economic crisis, in a separate statement Obama outlined some principles he said should guide the legislation and called on McCain to support them.

    CNN: McCain, Obama headed to Washington for bailout talks

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