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...University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis that got counted late on election night, then transported to a warehouse, and seem to have gone missing in the recount. Everyone spent a day combing the place for the envelope as if they were on a CSI episode, but to no avail. "You'd love to find it," says Mark Ritchie, Minnesota's secretary of state. "Out of 3 million ballots, to have one envelope missing, you know, darn it." You know, darn it is the Minnesota equivalent of self-flagellation...
...Students at the Medical School said that they have been nudging the administration to revamp the school’s conflict of interest policies both in the classroom and at the affiliated hospitals for roughly six years to little or no avail. Students spend their third and fourth years at the affiliated hospitals for their clinical education training...
...coaling station for U.S. Navy ships, under a lease drawn up in 1903. U.S. possession of Guantánamo was reaffirmed under former Cuban president Batista in 1934 with a provision that the lease could not be terminated without mutual consent - a provision that was challenged to no avail by Fidel Castro following the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The denial of his request to return the land to Cuba by President Eisenhower paved the way for escalated tensions between the two countries; Fidel later called it "a knife stuck in the heart of Cuba's dignity and sovereignty...
...that “you” actually meant my supervisor, Allie, who had one simple rule: Ashlee Simpson. On repeat.The $4.25 an hour was the final insult. On the first payday I even attempted to sow the seed of discontent among my coworkers, heavily referencing OSHA to no avail. I became bitter, seeing my associates as nothing but hapless lambs waiting to be slaughtered, content with their slave wages and unwilling to stand up for justice. Then again, I was a raging hypocrite in that I didn’t quit myself: it was far too late...
...rescue packages are concerned, the presumption must be that, for institutions that avail themselves of a government or central bank rescue operation, the managements concerned lose their jobs, and the shareholders lose their money. This is not vindictiveness: it is needed to prevent moral hazard and to ensure more prudence in future, and of course to protect the taxpayer. As for oversight, banks and other financial institutions clearly need to be far better capitalized than the existing rules require...