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  • The author briefly refers to the now-infamous "rubber rooms," the reassignment centers he first described in the New Yorker magazine in 2009, where teachers with especially bad records, whom it takes years to fire, were sent to kill time instead of, as before, being given make-work chores at schools.

    Learning the Hard Way Joel Klein 2011

  • "What you saw tonight, the brilliance behind the fantasy and the beauty of the show has nothing to do with that," said actress Salma Hayek after the show, referring to the now-infamous wedding dress.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Earlier, On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, according to BigGovernment.com, Weiner allegedly sent the woman an email from that same Yahoo! address and attached the now-infamous photo of a man's bulging underpants.

    Anthony Weiner Twitter Scandal: New Photos Emerge (VIDEO) 2011

  • When the Mets lost in the 2006 National League Championship Series, it was Beltran's season-ending strikeout, on a now-infamous curveball from Adam Wainwright, that was remembered.

    Beltran on the Verge of a Giant Step Brian Costa 2011

  • Ortley, by the way, borders the now-infamous Seaside Heights, the setting for the rococo MTV reality show Jersey Shore.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • I had just started graduate school at Purdue when Mark Rudd stopped by on the way to Chicago to recruit young Boilermakers for the now-infamous “Days of Rage.”

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • Having terrorized the local tearooms with the now-infamous line: We want the finest wines available to humanity.

    Cinematic Reflections Will Lyons 2011

  • Broadway theater productions — which got a now-infamous plug from Mayor Michael Bloomberg after the December snowstorm — haven't been affected, according to the Broadway League.

    Winter Rears Its Head Andrew Grossman 2011

  • Earlier, On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, according to BigGovernment.com, Weiner allegedly sent the woman an email from that same Yahoo! address and attached the now-infamous photo of a man's bulging underpants.

    Anthony Weiner Twitter Scandal: New Photos Emerge (VIDEO) 2011

  • Ortley, by the way, borders the now-infamous Seaside Heights, the setting for the rococo MTV reality show Jersey Shore.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

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