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...church's insurance carrier refused to cover the event and his the scramble to find a one-day rider. Only one agent in the country was willing to underwrite the event, he said - for $2,600. That, he said, illustrates how insurance companies have too much control over regular people. Those remarks, and others from Pagano, drew spontaneous bursts of "that's right" and "amen." The church eventually found coverage...
...video showed a Marine reacting to the question of how he would respond to orders to disarm Americans. Marines, he said, are authorized to disobey laws they believe are wrong. Another clip featured ABC-TV's John Stoessel, who said the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cannot cite statistics that prove measures like waiting periods and the Brady Bill have reduced accidental shooting deaths. Another clip featured a woman who saw her parents die in the infamous 1991 mass killings in a Killeen, Texas cafeteria. She'd left her gun in the car, as the legislature had mandated...
...with public dollars but are typically free of school-district and teacher-union restrictions, have typically been regarded as labs of innovation (though a recent Stanford University study makes the case that charter-school quality can range greatly, from great to not so great). Many charter principals have full control over the hiring and firing of teachers, full control of what curriculum they choose to teach on a daily and weekly basis, and full control over how long their school day should be - all the things that are typically dictated from a central office in a typical public school...
...Things would get worse. With sponsors turned off by Jackson's private life - Pepsi and sneaker brand LA Gear, for instance, had backed him - he further lost control of his finances. Duff investments and a divorce settlement with Lisa Marie Presley helped push Jackson to increasingly use his earnings from music as collateral for loans, first from Bank of America (BoA), before Fortress Investment Group, a specialist in distressed debt, took the loans off BoA's hands. By the mid-2000s, Jackson was believed to be $270 million in debt. (See Thriller's entry on the All-TIME 100 Albums...
Mercy the bureaucracy denies, for the Church committed a cardinal sin: It didn’t follow procedure. Last March, the diocese spent over $2,000 busing people to a rally in Hartford, where Catholics protested a bill that would have stripped pastors of control over parish finances. In April, the Church again trespassed. On its website, the diocese announced its opposition to a bill that legalized gay marriage and spurred parishioners to “contact your legislator.” OSE christened these three words “lobbying” and warned the diocese against further misbehavior...