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...city planner, admits that even after a century's exile, some Mormon tourists exhibited "an arrogance and ownership" regarding the town. Main Street merchants traded stories about shoppers who, arriving at the checkout, inquired, "Are you a Saint?" and if the answer was no, walked out, leaving the clerk holding...
Then tales of financial abuse began to roll in. A state audit found a clerk in the department of children's services had been taking kickbacks to allow ineligible kids into a state-financed day-care program for abused and neglected children. Other audits found four centers that had misused thousands of dollars in state funds and another that had received federal dollars for 8,184 breakfasts and 5,208 snacks that children never received. (One center is appealing its audit.) Investigations by the Memphis Commercial Appeal found still other day-care centers paying their executives six figures while paying...
...employee of Kitchen's Cabinet reported to CPD that a white female entered the store and returned two items. As the suspect exited the store, she picked up a cookware set valued at $500. When stopped and questioned by the clerk, the suspect stated that it was an even swap for the defective items she had returned and then continued to walk out of the store...
Seldom do women get as lucky as Erin Brockovich, the movie law clerk played by Julia Roberts who used low-cut tops to distract important men into giving her confidential records. It's rare that women can reap the benefits of men's objectification of them without suffering some of the drawbacks too. Ms. Brockovich took a lot of risks, and for her, it paid off. But for most women, the eternal paradox of feminism kicks in: In order to be safe from the aggression and oppression of men, we need to lose our femininity and become like them, thus...
...primary culprit" for the error was an anonymous government clerk, the Pentagon says. The bureaucrat mistakenly added all nonbattlefield U.S. military deaths--20,617--that occurred worldwide during the three-year conflict to the more than 33,000 U.S. battlefield dead in Korea. But only 3,275 of those nonbattlefield deaths--largely due to accidents or disease--occurred in Korea. That yields the new, revised U.S. death count for the war. In a rare example of interservice cooperation, a Pentagon memo notes, "All service historian offices have been advised...and are in agreement with the revision...