Emboldened by a last-minute pledge from Mr. Ben Ali to stop shooting demonstrators, as many as 10,000 people poured into the streets.
Most likely represented by a two-athlete contingent, Iraq will be allowed to compete at the upcoming Beijing Games after the International Olympic Committee received a last-minute pledge that the country would properly restructure its national Olympic organization.
Mateen's U.S. citizenship was "essentially wiped away" once his Afghan roots and a last-minute pledge of allegiance he made to the so-called Islamic State were revealed, Kabul-born and California-raised journalist Ali Latifi wrote Sunday in an op-ed for Media Diversified.
(On my Twitter stream, that last pledge sparked some skepticism. One person sent me a link to an OpenSecrets.org page showing that three of Clinton's top four campaign donors, in the course of her career, are Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase).
In aggregate, stations raised $32 million in the last pledge period in December, said John Wilson, PBS's chief programmer.
The fund's last pledge round, in October 2010, raised $11.7 billion, well short of the $13 billion "austerity budget" it said it needed as a minimum to continue programs already started.
"I love NPR and this really won't change anything, but I wish I hadn't given $1,000 to my local [public radio] station [in its last pledge drive].
He said the Israeli leader had defied any prospect for peace after making a last-minute election pledge this weekend to annex Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories.
Platts, an authoritative energy publication, estimated that OPEC's production dropped by 880,000 barrels a day in November, or half what the cartel last pledged.
Nearly every wave of immigrants in this country's history competed with one another to be more "American" than the last, pledging their allegiance to success and the idea of "whiteness", vying for their place among the chosen.
