William Safire Dead

William Safire Dead, William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79.

Safire spent more than 30 years writing on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. In his “On Language” column in The New York Times Magazine and more than a dozen books, Safire traced the origins of words and everyday phrases such as “straw man,” “under the bus” and “the proof is in the pudding.”

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William Safire Dead was first posted on September 28, 2009 at 1:00 pm.
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Flood Storm Leave 106 Deaths In Philippine

MANILA: Philippine officials say the number of dead and missing from Tropical Storm Ketsana has climbed to at least 106 people.

The storm set off the worst flooding in the Philippine capital and nearby provinces in more than 42 years.

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said Sunday that army troops, police and civilian volunteers rescued more than 5,000 people — many of them nervously clinging to each other on roofs and on top of passenger buses after the storm struck the previous day.

The newly reported deaths included 12 villagers who died in a landslide in northern Pampanga province and nine others in Bulacan province, most of whom died by drowning.

Also, an army soldier and four militiamen drowned while trying to rescue villagers in southern Laguna province.

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Flood Storm Leave 106 Deaths In Philippine was first posted on September 28, 2009 at 1:21 pm.
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