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In 2004, she accorded three stars to chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten ’ s Spice Market restaurant after Vongerichten gave her book Cooking for Mr. Latte a positive blurb ; the Times spotlighted the incident with an Editor ’ s Note.
Leone gave him some milk to wash out his mouth and apologized for the incident, but also commented that accidents do happen.
Robinson received a two-year suspended sentence, but the incident — along with other rumored run-ins between Robinson and police — gave Robinson a reputation for combativeness in the face of racial antagonism.
However, the cryptic nature of the problems that led to the decision to abort Mariner 1, as well as the confusion in various reports on the incident, gave rise to an urban legend of sorts.
One of the more drastic measures employed to accomplish the eradication of the old schools of thought was the infamous burning of books and burying of scholars incident, which almost singlehandedly gave the Qin Dynasty a bad reputation among later scholars.
That incident might also gave president Chen the ability of declaring martial emergency, which allegedly prevented the police and military, which were strongly Pan-Blue, from voting.
Evidence was still being sought on the night of August 4 when Johnson gave his address to the American public on the incident.
She stated that the incident was a " betrayal " of American forces and of the " country that gave me privilege ".
After this incident, the parliament gave in on a number of matters, including the four referendum questions, because word of their strike now could not be publicized.
Following this terrifying incident, Mary gave one of her gunners at Haddington, Andro Straitoun, a reward of a month's wages, £ 4.
The embarrassing incident gave Trevor-Roper's enemies at Peterhouse and elsewhere the opportunity to criticise him openly.
Both countries gave different accounts of the incident, each accusing the other of initiating the hostilities.
Grant later wrote that this incident gave him a more favorable opinion of Meade than the great victory at Gettysburg.
The winds began to change his way after Stalin gave his guidance on this incident.
The relative realism of Jett's home life sometimes gave way to fantasy or paranormal elements, such as one episode in which Jett learns about a shameful incident in Wilsted's history with a little prodding from the ghost of a key figure in the buried scandal.
Its strategic position gave rise to a history full of incident and strife but Dunbar has become a quiet dormitory town popular with workers in nearby Edinburgh, who find it an affordable alternative to the capital itself.
This incident gave name to both the place and the church.
* During the USS Pueblo incident, the captured North American crewmembers often discreetly gave the finger in staged photo ops, thus ruining the North Koreans ' propaganda efforts.
A famous incident took place when Þorgnýr the Lawspeaker told the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung that the people, not the king, held power in Sweden ; the king realized that he was powerless against the thing and gave in.
A year after the incident, after undergoing fertility treatments, Dion gave birth to a son, René-Charles Dion Angélil, on January 25, 2001, in Florida.
Symonds did not mention the incident for over a year, and then in 1859, gave the whole story to John Conington.
The only major incident during the orbital phase involved a contraband corned beef sandwich that Young had snuck on board ( though Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton wrote in his autobiography that he gave Young permission to do so ).
This incident gave Razin the reputation of an “ invincible warrior endowed with supernatural powers .” He continued his travels down the Volga and into the Caspian Sea, defeating several detachments of streltsy, or armed guardsmen.
Faced with such relentless, incessant questions, which she had no choice but to answer, Jane would have searched her memory for every tiny incident that occurred to her ... Jane had not been quick to tell tales, but she had buckled under the pressure of relentless questioning ... And it was her weakness under interrogation that gave her future detractors-happy to find a scapegoat to exonerate the King from the heinous charge of callously killing his innocent wife-the ammunition to maintain that it was her evidence that had fooled Henry and destroyed Anne and George ...".

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The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??
Premier Khrushchev wrecked the conference at its initial session with a bitter denunciation of the U. S. for the U-2 incident.
* A Christian commentary on the incident and its aftermath
This incident, coupled with Stalin's demands for the restitution of the Turkish provinces of Kars, Artvin and Ardahan to the Soviet Union ( which were lost by Turkey with the Russo – Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, but were regained with the Treaty of Kars in 1921 ) was one of the main reasons why Turkey decided to give up its general principle of neutrality in foreign affairs.
One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.
The Admiralty, upon receiving Herbert's report, immediately ordered its suppression, but the strict censorship imposed on the event failed when Americans who had witnessed the incident from Nicosians lifeboats spoke to newspaper reporters after their return to the United States.
The incident set an important precedent in terms of the apparent authority of Parliament to safeguard the nation's interests and its capacity to launch legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, the Earl of Strafford and Charles I.
Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed because of the U-2 incident when an American spy plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured.
It is distinguished from zodiacal light by its high angle of reflection of the incident sunlight on the dust particles.
In an embarrassing incident at the 1943 Tehran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the " Sword of Stalingrad " from Winston Churchill, he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from its scabbard onto his toes in the presence of the Big Three wartime leaders.
A very simple example: a photosensor might passively measure the incident light and discharge its absorbed energy as electricity when the light passes above or below a specified threshold, sending a signal to a larger machine.
This new law provoked a small international incident, as its implementation actually preceded any public notification of such a law, resulting in the prolonged imprisonment of a large group of meteorite hunters primarily from Russia, but whose party also consisted of members from the U. S. as well as several other European countries.
Alleged by the Germans to have been a deliberate act, the NIOD announced in January 2005 that its study of the incident confirmed that it was an accident caused by poor communications and chaos in the airspace.
Motivated by his hatred of the federal government and angered by what he perceived as its mishandling of the Waco Siege ( 1993 ) and the Ruby Ridge incident ( 1992 ), McVeigh timed his attack to coincide with the second anniversary of the deadly fire that ended the siege at Waco.
It explained why the energy of photoelectrons were dependent only on the frequency of the incident light and not on its intensity: a low-intensity, high-frequency source could supply a few high energy photons, whereas a high-intensity, low-frequency source would supply no photons of sufficient individual energy to dislodge any electrons.
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it follows two French Hussar officers, D ' Hubert and Feraud ( Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel ) whose quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter extended feud spanning fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop.
Roswell is most popularly known for having its name attached to what is now called the 1947 Roswell UFO incident, even though the crash site of the alleged UFO was some 75 miles from Roswell and closer to Corona.
In one notable incident, when an away team was trapped on a radioactive planet, the Doctor was able to infiltrate the people and almost single-handedly rescue the team because, as he pointed out, being a hologram renders him immune to the radiation, stating that " being a hologram does have its advantages.
The second major incident arose out of an initially peaceful protest by the Mau ( which literally translates as " strongly held opinion "), a non-violent popular movement which had its beginnings in the early 1900s on Savai ' i, led by Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, an orator chief deposed by Solf.
This incident long damaged the army's reputation, leading to persistent calls for its abolition among left-wing politicians.
This means that only in 11. 65 % of its cases is there the minimal detail provided to identify the person, place, date, incident and perpetrator of the abuse.
“ Our investigation has confirmed that while Telstra breached the Privacy Act when the personal information of a number of its customers was disclosed to third parties ; this incident was caused by a one-off human error.
McVeigh, a militia movement sympathizer, sought revenge against the federal government for its handling of the Waco Siege, which had ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years prior to the bombing, as well as for the Ruby Ridge incident in 1992.
This incident and the importance of Martin in the medieval Christian West made Tours, and its position on the route of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a major centre during the Middle Ages.

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