• Long before Britney Spears notoriously married her high school sweetheart at five in the morning, and long before George Clooney and Brad Pitt strutted through the Bellagio in Ocean's Eleven.

    BBC: Vintage Las Vegas

  • Couches arose because they were part of the extra-domestic arrangements of her second husband, Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post. (Hence her Washington exile.) He left her when she was pregnant with their second child, falling for a woman whose neck was approximately as long as George's and whose feet were splayed.

    ECONOMIST: Nora Ephron and Lonesome George

  • "I am surprised that the true identity of this bird has remained hidden from the scientific world for so long, " George Sangster, lead author from the Swedish Museum of Natural History, said in an email.

    NPR: Brown-And-White Whistling Owl ID'd As New Species

  • As long as President George W. Bush does not lose sight of that reality, he will be remembered for his transforming vision long before any American takes up residence on the Moon or steps foot on Mars.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The vision thing

  • Special Offer: Long before Facebook, George Gilder started a money-making social network for technology investors and entrepreneurs: Gilder Telecosm Forum.

    FORBES: Dow Theory And Trading The Railroads

  • Just a very few on a long list would be George Saunders, Kelly Link, Joy Williams, Ben Marcus, Jim Shepard, and whole cemeteries of the well-over-forty deceased ones.

    NEWYORKER: Karen Russell

  • In his report, following a year-long review, Sir George, a former chief executive of IT company Unisys, said the pressure to deliver quick results to the potential detriment of the longer-term development of a company had "become an entrenched feature of the UK business environment".

    BBC: UK business too focused on short term, says Labour report

  • And almost seamlessly, from then on, Dick Cheney, working closely with other members of the administration, many of whom had been his friends for decades - long before they knew George Bush - set in motion how the United States was going to respond, set the terms for the global war on terror.

    NPR: 'Washington Post' Series Focuses on Cheney

  • Sir David Steel and George Reid brought long experience and clear minds to the task.

    BBC: One last, lingering look behind

  • Tim Cahill, who scored a late game-winning goal against on May 4, sent a long pass from midfield that George went up to head and missed.

    WSJ: Injury time goal by Olave gives Red Bulls 2-2 tie

  • Chancellor George Osborne has long held an ambition to allow some or all of the costs of childcare to be claimed back against tax, but sources told Newsnight the idea was "on the table" for inclusion sooner rather later.

    BBC: Ministers 'plan childcare change'

  • Mr Burdett Coutts told the BBC Scotland news website although he would be putting a bid in to return to the George Street premises he said he hoped the Assembly Theatre would be in George Square "long term".

    BBC: The Assembly Theatre Fringe venue to leave 30-year home

  • Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Secretary of State George Shultz had long advocated that the U.S. and the West arm the victims of Serbian aggression and employ our air power, if necessary, to stop Belgrade's marauders.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • "If it worked we would have embraced it a long time ago, " says George Todd, a vascular surgeon at St.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • George Burke says his Long Branch, N.

    WSJ: When Starting a Business, Personal Time Often Gets Short Shrift

  • The city is large enough to fill 80, 000 seats at Arrowhead on Sunday afternoons, yet small enough to feel forever grateful to those who wow the nation in a Kansas City uniform, explaining why long-retired Len Dawson and George Brett still live there.

    WSJ: Kansas City: Why Going to KC Is No Curse��Kevin Helliker

  • This prescription sounds very close to the recommendations of America's top political scholar on Britain, Samuel Beer, in his recent keen affidavit for the Blair government in The Economist (February 7th), who lauds New Labour as a return to the social-liberal spirit of Lloyd George, after the long years in a collectivist wilderness.

    ECONOMIST: British politics

  • George left Northern Ireland wearing long trousers for the first time, and rarely returned.

    ECONOMIST: George Best

  • The code could call for at least 30% of executive directors' pay to be deferred and based on long-term results, said Sir George.

    BBC: UK business too focused on short term, says Labour report

  • Comedian George Lopez has had a long and storied career.

    FORBES: Are Prepaid Cards Turning into the George Lopez Show?

  • John McCain's victory in the New Hampshire primary was crushing: he defeated George W. Bush, long deemed certain to gain the Republican nomination, by a wounding 18 percentage points.

    ECONOMIST: The contender

  • "After George and I had our long and productive meeting with Rafa following the Manchester United match, we put all of our issues behind us and received Rafa's commitment that he wanted to stay with Liverpool, " said Hicks.

    BBC: Liverpool admit Klinsmann talks

  • The clashes have echoes of an earlier and long-lasting division between Cap Weinberger and George Schultz, Mr Reagan's secretaries of defence and state.

    ECONOMIST: Working out the world

  • It warned us of a monster backup on the George Washington Bridge and estimated how long that would delay us in case we wanted to take an alternate route.

    WSJ: Review: iPhone Google Maps lags Android version

  • Veteran David West broke out of a series-long funk to score 24 points, Paul George finished with another double-double and Indiana pulled away for a 106-83 victory to take a 3-2 lead over the Hawks.

    NPR: Pacers Rebound With 106-83 Rout Of Hawks In Game 5

  • The high technology guru George Gilder and I have had a long-standing debate.

    FORBES: A Season For Surprises

  • Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell on Thursday will release his long-awaited report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball.

    NPR: Doping Report a Key Test of Mitchell's Fixer Skills

  • He went a long way in achieving that simply by not being George W. Bush, but it's difficult to point to real successes in fulfilling his pledge to exert moral leadership.

    CNN: Obama, failing on moral leadership?

  • In this view, George Bush is the successor of a long line of rulers, from the Byzantine emperors, to the Holy Roman emperors to Queen Victoria, who have obstructed the divinely ordained and inevitable spread of Islam.

    ECONOMIST: Islam and the West

  • For example, when former President George W. Bush lowered the maximum long-term capital gains tax rate to 15% in 2003, all gains generated prior to May 6, 2003 were subject to a 20% rate, with all gains derived after that date taxed at the lower 15% maximum.

    FORBES: Business Owners Could Find Their Tax Deferral Backfiring

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