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Cornucopia's first complaint, filed in January 2005, alleged that the Platteville, Colo., farm owned by Aurora Organic Dairy, one of the nation's largest organic milk producers, confined thousands of organic cows in factory-like conditions with little access to pasture for grazing. Cornucopia followed up with two other complaints regarding Aurora's operations...
...help her to sleep. - I wonder how long she will last." But two months later, shortly after her major triumph of locating a space for her headquarters, Kolodiejchuk's files find her troubled. "What tortures of loneliness," she wrote. "I wonder how long will my heart suffer this?" This complaint could be understood as an initial response to solitude and hardship were it not for subsequent letters. The more success Teresa had - and half a year later so many young women had joined her society that she needed to move again - the worse she felt. In March 1953, she wrote...
...women, in the New York and L.A. Timeses and the Washington and New York Posts, ranged from favorable to ecstatic. Manohla Dargis' notice in the New York Times described the film's phallo-neurosis with a gusto that soared into poetry: "If the penis is puzzled in Portnoy's Complaint, as Alexander Portnoy's shrink believes, in Superbad it is thoroughly, stunningly clueless and as violently tremulous as a divining rod at Hoover Dam." (Congrats to Manohla, by the way, for getting shrink and penis into the same sentence.) The token male critic I consulted, Joe Morgenstern of the Wall...
...inheritance of fun. Michael Eavis, the legendary organizer of the UK's Glastonbury Festival was heard griping after last month's mudfest that the grungy edge of the event has become dulled in recent years by the influx of "middle-aged" and "respectable" festival-goers. It's a common complaint this summer, with England's festival fields thick with well-heeled campers - the ones with fast broadband and an unblocked credit card to slap on a party-booking for family and friends the moment tickets go on sale. Good news for the corporate sponsors and, to be fair, the ancient...
Chaplain Benson told the Inspector General's office that the office had violated his due process rights, that it lacked authority to investigate a complaint by a non-federal employee, that Benson's speech was protected under the Constitution's First Amendment, and that his identification in the film as "Pentagon Chaplain" did not imply DOD endorsement of the film...