December 9, 2011 10:50 PM | cunctator

NPRisms

Artemis: NPR's archive system
chase note: a short memo from an editor
HERMES: NPR's news production person authority database
Newsflex: NPR's in-house story management system
Nipper: a NPR employee (from treating NPR as an acronym)
two-way: an interview between a studio-based presenter with a reporter in the field

December 4, 2011 03:58 PM | cunctator

Samuel Hook

Samuel Hook is an associate of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and husband of Shana Tesler, a lobbyist who worked under Abramoff as a member of "Team Abramoff". Hook is a former contract employee at Greenberg Traurig, and owner and president of two other Abramoff-controlled entities, Grassroots Interactive, LLC and Federal Program Services, LLC. Hook signed Eshkol Academy's 2001 tax return. Abramoff hired Hook to serve as interim executive director of Eshkol Academy in November 2002. Hook was paid $20,000 for serving as the interim director, and the payments may have come from the Capital Athletic Foundation.

Source: "Gimme Five" Investigation of Tribal Lobbying Matters Final Report before the Committee on Indian Affairs, 109th Congress, June 22, 2006

August 11, 2010 09:38 PM | cunctator

Aurora Borealis Sad Kitten Cupcake Moonscape

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March 14, 2010 11:33 AM | cunctator

peter baker

Week in Review:

little political don’t pass risk losing

laughed conceded gossip politics

politics decisive fate decided fate devastate devastate

debating pivotal vast energy and political capital all-in bet fail damage credibility scarred polarized and angry political elite broken

falls short ambitious out of reach question weak run away narrower collapsed

risks beleaguered avoid anger broke down complaints tactics sacrifice

challenge popular abuses not kick in long after election

run aggressively relish Tea Party mantle of repeal

relish dead in the polls

suffered the consequences failed undercutting hindsight chalked up bipartisan victory

salient ran aground debacle fueled sweep bitter P.T.S.D. post-traumatic stress disorder

lost deciding vote spending cuts tax increase on the wealthy

former boiled down boiled down very hard to push back scared

former problem losing former failure worse

nothing just walk don’t want push narrower tried

too hyperbolic presidency rides fails still recover weakened enormous damage failure takeover handily

troubles leadership crisis inherited crises botched recriminations crisis

residual popularity bring down hit

problem raised the stakes so high make-or-break bad spot

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