Navigating Cannes screenings a tricky task - Chicago Tribune
25 May 2012, 1:55 pm
It’s a simple, effective strategy. Perpetually on the run with its protagonist, “No” neither deifies nor derides the ad man’s scruples or his malleable ideology. The movie’s success came out of nowhere, or appeared to, which is a ...

AP CM derides Jagan's claim that Cong trying to postpone - in.com
23 May 2012, 11:27 am
elections Hyderabad, May 23(PTI)Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today brushed aside YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy s claim that the Congress and the TDP were conspiring to get the by-elections slated for June 12 postponed ...

Taliban derides 'futile' NATO summit - Los Angeles Times
22 May 2012, 8:08 am
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban movement on Tuesday mocked NATO for what it described as a "futile" summit that had ended a day earlier in Chicago. "Out of desperation, they repeated the same old narrative," said a Pashto-language statement ...

At Harvard, Romney Wasn't Your Typical Student - NPR News
21 May 2012, 2:00 pm
When Mitt Romney attacks his Democratic opponent on the campaign trail, he often derides President Obama's Ivy League credentials. "We have a president who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard," Romney told supporters at ...

Manchester's FutureEverything conference – day two - The Guardian
21 May 2012, 1:36 am
As she puts it: Is it just voting every four years for a party whose manifesto we haven't read? She derides the politics of left v right as "a dinosaur, a thing of the past," and asks us instead to ask ourselves who writes our laws. Her own ...

Mamata Banerjee: After one year as Bengal CM, she doesn't feel the need for a course correction - Economic Times
21 May 2012, 12:03 am
It's not difficult to see why the urban intelligentsia so derides Mamata Banerjee. It is one thing to drape Kolkata in the blue and white of her trademark sarees or to banish humour from a culture anyway plagued with the po-faced, and quite ...

CBS’s Schieffer derides Boehner for Tying Debt Ceiling Hike to Spending Cuts: ‘Was He Kidding?’ - Media Research Center
20 May 2012, 10:08 pm
The Sunday interview show hosts all reacted with disbelief toward House Speaker John Boehner’s pledge to demand spending cuts equal to the debt ceiling increase, with CBS’s Bob Schieffer the most derisive as he declared “it was a week when ...

GOP Financial Services Committee Chairman Defends JP Morgan, derides Regulation - Think Progress
17 May 2012, 1:36 pm
House Republicans, in the wake of JP Morgan’s now $3 billion trading mess, have temporarily backed off their zeal to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. However, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) — who ...

Chinese development hits snag; Council derides discriminatory comments - The Oakland Press
15 May 2012, 10:11 am
City leaders in Milan condemned alleged discriminatory talk around town about a proposed development for Chinese business owners just outside the city limits. Several council members spoke out against the derogatory comments they have heard ...

Faldo not backing down from criticism of Tiger Woods - USA Today
11 May 2012, 6:41 am
Nick Faldo criticizes Tiger Woods. The superstar golfer derides Faldo. Your serve Sir Nick. When the CBS golf analyst claimed that Woods had lost his self-belief, the 14-time major winner said critics were "not in my head" and "they must have some kind of ...