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...company owner and amateur record breaker, after pulling a 7.4-ton, 30-seat passenger plane 3.4 m with his ears. Singh, 57, who lives in the U.K., hopes the feat will be the latest addition to the 30 world records he already holds, including one for pulling a double-decker bus by his hair...
...Marjorie C. Decker—who reads a list of Iraq war casualties at each weekly council meeting—said she was surprised at the disparity. Councillor Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. said he had submitted a resolution in 2001 promising all city employees full pay during wartime deployment. Decker, who co-sponsored the measure with Galluccio and Toomey, said she only discovered “inconsistencies in how [the 2001 resolution] has been applied” several weeks ago. Following the detectives’ comments, the council unanimously approved the measure ordering the Office of the City Manager...
...wide open, and I was looking out as we flew. On the ground, the environment was strikingly permissive, considering that a foreign army had just invaded the capital and deposed the country's long-term dictator. People were going out, eating in restaurants. You half expected to see double-decker buses rolling down the main streets, with curious tourists gaping out the windows...
Councilor Marjorie C. Decker said she believed it was inappropriate for CWD to be taking steps toward implementing the program prior to its approval. “There should not be signs up saying that this is a policy that is already taking place. That kind of action does fuel cynicism about the city government,” she said last night...
...love. But for a club comprised mostly of hardcore video gamers, its members define “interactive media” in a strikingly humanistic way. “Take a Rothko painting like ‘Green on Maroon,’” says Benjamin S. Decker ’08, founder of HIMG. In the way a painting is seen and interpreted, it’s not all about the artist, he says. “It’s created by the viewer, too. We see that as interactive media...