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...vast scope of Domino's delivery empire just got a little bit bigger. After investigating charges of racial discrimination against the pizza giant's delivery force, the Justice Department issued an agreement Monday that ensures the democratic conveyance of pies. There were, according to multiple accusations leveled against Domino's, neighborhoods where deliveries could not be made; drivers were afraid to venture into areas they considered dangerous, but which residents insisted were distinguished only by their black population. In one of the most blatant cases used to inform the DOJ case against Domino's, a group of black customers called...
...Jeffrey Eugenides' novel of the same name and told partially in flashback from the perspective of several neighborhood adolescents who recount the events surrounding the disturbing suicides of the five Lisbon sisters. These collective narrators bring us into the world of the Lisbon's and the suicidal domino effect that occurs when the youngest daughter, Cecilia, hurls herself from the second-story window of the family's home at a party thrown in her honor. After Cecilia's death, the remaining sisters are cloistered in the house only allowed to leave for school, by their oppressive and overprotective parents...
...move had a domino effect on Born's chances. Before the meeting, Braude told Reeves he would support him if Born was not elected mayor on the first ballot...
...Still, there are signs that the domino train has been set in motion. After barely totaling $1.4 million in the months leading to New Hampshire, online donations to McCain's web site surpassed $800,000 in the 48 hours following the win. Polls that last week had Bush ahead by 20 points in South Carolina now have the race too close to call. Meanwhile, on Thursday the McCain Express toppled a major hurdle when New York governor George Pataki (who's reportedly angling for the No. 2 spot on a Bush for President ticket), bowed to popular demand and pressed...
...registered independents, a key factor in New Hampshire, to vote in their primaries. This, along with the votes of conservatives wary of McCain who'll abandon the right-leaning Steve Forbes and Alan Keyes in favor of the more plausible Bush, could be what it takes to derail the domino train...