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...RIGHTS!!!”“I was hoping they would arrest me for not having a permit,” O’Brien said. “I came to the point that I realized, no matter what, I’m not going to be accepted in the business community, at least by officials.”Kelley said that he still does not understand O’Brien’s complaint and that he doesn’t remember O’Brien’s presence outside City Hall...
Plus, amendments to the bankruptcy code, put in place in 2005, create another hurdle for distressed retailers. Under the new rules, a retailer now has only 210 days after filing for Chapter 11 to accept or reject its existing lease agreements (pre-2005, the companies could liberally extend a 60-day time limitation). Clearance sales typically give the bankrupt company a cash infusion to help pay off the DIP loans. But if a company can't reorganize in 210 days, and is forced to cancel its leases, it won't have a place to sell its goods. No sale means...
...about the world of Laramie. As a play, “The Laramie Project” strives to reveal the evil that resides in America; by owning up to prejudice against homosexuality as a society, it suggests, this evil can hopefully be corrected. Most of the townspeople refuse to accept that Laramie is homophobic—it’s “just not that kind of place.” However, one student—a Muslim girl named Zubaida Ula (Leslie Rith-Najarian ’12)—disagrees. “We need...
...Some recipients have been happy to get in on the joke. Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven appeared in person to accept the award for Worst Picture of 1995. ("He sat through the entire ceremony," Wilson says, "and then got up at the end and said, 'Obviously my film has entertained you, but not in the way I intended it to.'") In 2005, Oscar-Winner Halle Berry made headlines with an overemotional parody of her Academy Awards acceptance speech while taking home the Worst Actress award for Catwoman...
...mainstream Labor Party did so but said the air strikes should have ended after the first three days to keep down the civilian casualties. "The electorate now has a deep hatred of Arabs, such distrust," says Vilan. "They see us as Arab lovers, and they don't accept that we're patriots fighting for the long-term interests of Israel." Polls suggest that neither party is expected to increase its representation in the Knesset in the Feb. 10 election, and the odds are on the Gaza war's helping sweep a right-wing coalition into power...