Among the many dubious provisions in the 2005 energy bill was one dubbed the Halliburton loophole, which was inserted at the behest of — you guessed it — then-Vice President Dick Cheney, a former chief executive of Halliburton.
Nevertheless, they are still keeping Assange trapped in the Ecuadorean embassy, illegally, and presumably at the behest of you-know-who.
Dear Gene, I was just reading your most recent Washington Post column: an open letter to a j-school student who wrote to you, at her professor's behest, asking how you built your "personal brand" in journalism.
(A long story ensued about how Mr. Grant, instructed by his agent to help Ms. Binoche, who is French, prepare for a part in an English film, ended up chasing her around a park in London at her behest, shouting, "Would you like a cup of tea, Madam?" Then, Mr. Grant recalled, he was handed an envelope containing £200, about $350, "like the plumber").
TB Both seem genuinely nice, look a little like muscle-bound toddlers, are talented yet strangely inauthentic (has the threat of being knocked unconscious ever seemed milder then when delivered by LL Cool J at his mother's behest?), and when you think about it it's weird neither have been in a Fast and Furious movie yet.
Then shoot everyone else, behing careful as you head up the stairs, and go through the kitchen to kill everyone else.
He released the album at the behest of the label — "When you find somebody enthusiastic about your stuff, it really helps, and it inspires you to finish up things and polish things and get them out," Mr. Lynch said — and over his own fear of being a singer.
One moment she's wailing along with Patti Smith in her bedroom ("something I shared with nobody"), the next she's standing in a nightclub loo singing the opening lines from her mega-hit "Missing" at the behest of two over-excited clubbers ("You sound just like you!" they gasp).
The trouble comes not only when you recall real history but when you look around: the conspiracy theories out there today — the ones about the socialist fascists who are coming to get you at the behest of the alien President — are not cute.
