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Perhaps most distressing for a German brand is VW's dismal reputation for quality. VWs still handle crisply and feature the sharpest interiors in their price category, but owners complain about everything from puny cup holders to noisy brakes. Consumer Reports does not recommend any VWs, while J.D. Power ranks VW 35th out of 37 nameplates in its latest survey of initial vehicle quality. VW representatives point out that the company's scores are improving, which is true. But so are almost everyone else's. "Shame on us that we haven't moved up the rankings," says Hallmark...
...exist of the author, 69, mainly from his school days and the most recent a dodgy paparazzi-type shot in 1998. A CNN crew had filmed him the previous year, but the news network decided not to identify him after Pynchon, who reportedly lives in New York, called to complain. "Let me be unambiguous," he told the news channel. "I prefer not to be photographed." (He also railed against being labeled a recluse, claiming the term was a journalistic "code word" that means "doesn't talk to reporters...
...just don't want a carte blanche exception that allows for phishing expeditions." According to Larry Neal, House Energy and Commerce Committee deputy staff director, a proposal with an exception for intelligence gathering was offered to Democrats. "They said no. The result is that they have something to complain about instead of something to legislate." Why the House bill is not a slam-dunk Not surprisingly, the powerful phone companies don't favor the House's pretexting bill because of its broad (and still vague) requirements that they implement new security measures for access to customer records and file regular...
...Wildlife lovers and environmentalists are outraged by the decision. They point out that Delhi's monkeys have become urbanized and may not survive in the wild. Activists also complain that in the process of rounding up monkeys, many are injured and babies get separated from mothers. "We have to tackle this another way," says Gautam Grover, the head of animal rights group Animal Saviour. "We took their land, we took their trees, we took their forests and now we just want to send them to another forest. We're playing God with this...
...world in search of people who are not simpatico but antipatico, and she has bagged dozens-Norman Mailer, Federico Fellini, Michael Caine, Dean Martin, El Cordobes, Hugh Hefner and the Duchess of Alba, to name a few ... When Oriana's subjects read the result of the interview, they often complain that she has fabricated the quotes. She denies it. But she does take a few liberties. 'I transcribe the whole interview,' she says, 'then I make it into what I print in the same way that a movie director makes a film-eliminating and cutting and splicing ... Of course...