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...these to the highest bidder, announced that it would remove any postings concerning Michael Jackson memorial tickets in an effort to combat scalpers. On the site on Monday night, the only items available under "Michael Jackson Memorial" were T shirts. Still, organizers admitted they couldn't completely stop the blatant profiteering. "For those who take advantage of this," promoter AEG's CEO Tim Leiweke said last week, "shame on you." (See pictures of Jackson's Neverland Ranch...
...some measure of sympathy for Sanford after his confessional, many believed his admission of "selfishness on my part" applied as much to his public transgression as his personal indiscretions. Going AWOL in South America for almost a week without even telling his staff his whereabouts, they argued, reflected a blatant disregard for the workings of government that has marked his seven years in office...
According to Maloney, the election controversy provided considerable new insight into the cleric believed to hold absolute power, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Everyone expected voting irregularities, she said, but not "this degree of blatant, in-your-face fraud." That Khamenei almost instantly certified the victory of his candidate, incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dashed a central assumption about his regime: that its survival and social stability are intertwined with the legitimacy of Iran's democratic institutions. "He was willing to jettison the democratic institutions and effectively cede whatever remaining legitimacy there was in a popular vote in favor of maintaining total control...
...Lamont Library, and we just never even thought about how ridiculous that was.”Long after Radcliffe, Sabath became heavily involved in the abortion rights activism, presiding over a Massachusetts organization which frequently organized demonstrations on the Boston Common. Karmel, who said she does not remember a blatant de jure gender divide, says the dearth of females among the Harvard faculty discouraged her from pursuing a Ph.D. She says she thought it would be “practically impossible for a woman to be hired as an academic at an ivy league institution...
...hand over management to someone who’s taken Ec 10. It’s easier to believe in financial incompetence than the alternative, however, student organizers who are aware that an event may not make a profit and still advertise a charity function demonstrate insincerity and a blatant disregard for their chosen cause...