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...joined forces at the third annual “Life is good Pumpkin Festival” to shatter the Guinness World Record for most pumpkins lit in the same place at the same time. Boston’s fierce competitor for the pumpkin champ title, Keene, N.H., has proudly bled orange since lighting a record 28,952 jack-o’-lanterns in 2003. Although the town of 22,000 people lit more than its population in pumpkins, Boston ultimately came out on top. According to the James S. Laughlin, head of the Festivals Divison and Director of Communications...
...post-war politician in Sao Paulo state won three terms as mayor and governor with the dubious endorsement that "he steals, but he gets things done." Former president Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached in 1992 over a corruption scandal, and in 2001 it was revealed that fraudsters had bled an astonishing $2 billion from two government agencies established to help the country's poor...
...Republican-responded to a Republican ad that accused him of supporting flag burning by saying, "People who live in glass dude ranches"-Webb's opponent, Senator George Allen, spent summers working on ranches while Webb was in Vietnam-"should not question the patriotism of real soldiers who fought and bled for this country on a real battlefield...
...fall has to be scariest for liberal arts graduates, because so much of what we’ve bled ourselves dry to learn will be completely irrelevant to our success in the future. Long on mental acuity but short on discrete skills, our diplomas act more like fall-retarding parachutes than free-flying hang gliders. English concentrators are going to work for investment banks. Reports on the market size for ball-bearings in Ohio and impenetrable mutual fund prospectuses will replace papers on Dante’s reinvention of the novel. Forced to redefine our individual expertises by the exigencies...
...prosecution's task with Skilling - and next week with Lay - is to cast doubt on their contention that they were unaware of the financial shenanigans of ex-CFO Andrew Fastow and his financial Team. How could Skilling, the man who testified he "bled Enron blue" and was involved in all major strategic decisions, not know that his lieutenants were manufacturing the numbers? In court he claimed he didn't know he had a responsibility to oversee Fastow's questionable transactions. Yet prosecutors pointed out at least one of the transactions was discussed at a board of directors' finance meeting...