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...Whether Rumsfeld ever expressed remorse in private will remain, in his own words, “a known unknown”. demetri.sevastopulo@ft.com...
...The advent of caller ID on phones has meant fewer people pick up, and younger people are much less likely to answer the phone to an unknown caller. Polling is a fairly costly business....
...“He was an unknown . . . There [was] no history, no track record....
...I still have additional questions,” Mr McCain said....
...Mr Van de Put joins from McCain Foods, a privately held Canadian company that makes frozen french fries, where he was president and chief executive....
...Some of us have learnt to watch what the president does as opposed to what he says,” Mr McCain said....
...John McCain, the US senator, sent an envoy to London to receive Mr Steele’s dossier in December, according to the person familiar with the situation....
...Most of the advisers he announced in March are largely unknown to former Republican officials....
...Iowa helped Jimmy Carter, a relatively unknown Georgia governor, catapult to the Democratic nomination, while New Hampshire was key to John McCain’s GOP success in 2008....
...Mr McCain picked Sarah Palin, an unknown conservative firebrand, as his running mate. Mr Bush has hinted that he would be unwilling to pander to the Tea Party’s worst instincts....
...Moreover, he has the respect of John McCain, incoming chairman of the Senate armed services committee, which means his confirmation would probably be smooth. So far, so good....
...American politicians have visited conferences before – Bill Clinton here, John McCain to the Tories. But this was something totally different....
...Two of the candidates who attended – including Herman Cain, the former radio talk show host and chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza – were virtually unknown....
...But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don’t know we don’t know. With luck, “unknown unknowns” could someday become Rumsfeld’s Andy Warhol quote for the ages....
...Yet a hitherto unknown Republican, John Raese, a wealthy mine owner and entrepreneur, is doing so well that the race is too close to call....
...A loss for Ms Murkowski would represent a stunning defeat for the Republican party, which almost universally backed her against Mr Miller, a relative unknown....
...They believe a spirit of lawlessness has engulfed the system, allowing unknown special interests to inject limitless funds into national politics....
...Her choice of Newsmax before her local paper or the US financial daily was no accident, not least because the magazine put her on its cover a few days before John McCain chose the relative unknown as his...
...Instead, Ms Palin will on Tuesday launch her much-hyped book, Going Rogue: An American Life, mischievously borrowing the tag given to her by John McCain’s team after he chose the unknown maverick as his...
...It was published in 1995, when he was unknown, and only became a best-seller nine years later after his riveting speech to the Democratic party’s convention....
...Joe the plumber rapidly morphed into the debating equivalent of the unknown soldier....
...Unknowns: The derivatives market We invite your suggestions....
...In the moonshine capital of the world, you don’t consume unknown liquids in opaque glasses too quickly....
...Parting company with past presidential wives, she has replaced Oscar de la Renta with relatively young, unknown American designers: Maria Pinto, Thakoon Panichgul, Isabel Toledo, Narciso Rodriguez....
...obliged Mr Obama temporarily to change his schedule, his campaign had been highlighting his family background in an attempt to combat an undercurrent of accusations from the right that he was a virtual unknown...
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