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  • That casualty list still would not include the damage done by lost resources when the people named fled the State Department offered protection to those named or stopped working with the US, or when dissidents and reporters lost their now-terrif­ied sources and connection­s.

    Larry Womack: WikiLeaks Rips the Blogger-Reporter Ethics Gap Wide Open Larry Womack 2010

  • That casualty list still would not include the damage done by lost resources when the people named fled the State Department offered protection to those named or stopped working with the US, or when dissidents and reporters lost their now-terrif­ied sources and connection­s.

    Larry Womack: WikiLeaks Rips the Blogger-Reporter Ethics Gap Wide Open Larry Womack 2010

  • That casualty list still would not include the damage done by lost resources when the people named fled the State Department offered protection to those named or stopped working with the US, or when dissidents and reporters lost their now-terrif­ied sources and connection­s.

    Larry Womack: WikiLeaks Rips the Blogger-Reporter Ethics Gap Wide Open Larry Womack 2010

  • That casualty list still would not include the damage done by lost resources when the people named fled the State Department offered protection to those named or stopped working with the US, or when dissidents and reporters lost their now-terrif­ied sources and connection­s.

    Larry Womack: WikiLeaks Rips the Blogger-Reporter Ethics Gap Wide Open Larry Womack 2010

  • That casualty list still would not include the damage done by lost resources when the people named fled the State Department offered protection to those named or stopped working with the US, or when dissidents and reporters lost their now-terrif­ied sources and connection­s.

    Larry Womack: WikiLeaks Rips the Blogger-Reporter Ethics Gap Wide Open Larry Womack 2010

  • That's terrif, because you'd need a handbook the size of Dreams of My Father to figure out which foods are covered under the program--and which aren't.

    Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack Is Worried That Obama Foodorama Is On The USDA Payroll Eddie Gehman Kohan 2009

  • The Drawing of the Dark is pretty terrif, and some of his others are good, but our favorite is The Stress of Her Regard.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Six Greatest Fantasy Novels of All Time 2009

  • There is currently a softwood terrif on Canadian lumber which means the average American pays $1000 more for a home because of the terrifs.

    Think Progress » Two Percent 2005

  • "Now, I'm going to roll the dough out, see? into a nice flat sheet, now I'm cutting it up into squares -" "This is terrif, Mom!"

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Etobicoke's Nancy McKenzie did not identify the titles of the collections of Bowering Baseballiterature he either edited or writ; thus, she will not receive the now officially out-of-stock forever IOWerZ T-Shirt, the one the creator of The Great George Bowering Baseball Trivia Quiz sports in this terrif pic gracing this, my last post, none other than the better half of the enviably and admiringly copacetic union of Jean Baird and George Bowering.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JUDITH FITZGERALD 2012

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