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...President evidently did not know that it has been impossible to tune the bells. It is doubtful whether he was aware that the College has been unable to find an experienced Russian player, so that dubious but vociferous scales are about the only piece de resistance for would-be Lowell House sleepers Sunday mornings...
...addition, the jacket design is of singularly dubious merit. In an attempt to avoid portraying actual Transformers and earn the wrath of Hasbro’s legal department, _Eugenesis_ instead features a black and white photo of junked automobiles on the cover; part of a faux Penguin Classics design for the entire book (closer inspection reveals the publisher to be “Polyhex Classics,” a Transformers reference, naturally). With these wrappings, the book could easily mingle unnoticed alongside _Middlemarch_ and _The Canterbury Tales_. Whether it deserves such illustrious company is somewhat questionable. Like...
...equipment to Iraq, Libya and other pariah states. But prosecutors say Schompeter easily found ways around the tougher export restrictions. The initial sale was to a German-based trading company, so as to circumvent the manufacturer's internal controls, and the drill was then exported to Jordan with a dubious end-user certificate before ending up in Iraq, they said. A spokesman says prosecutors are currently investigating five other cases, at least three of which involve illegal sales to Iraq. "The sentences have gotten longer, but it's still possible to get around the bans with forged documents and suchlike...
...Agency (FSA), begin to take effect on April 1. Under the guidelines, banks will be required to declare worthless many of the questionable loans listed on their books as recoverable assets. Designed to force banks to clean up their rotten lending portfolios, later reforms will also likely restrict the dubious practice of counting future tax refunds as current assets...
...that parents deliberately make bad choices, says estate lawyer Colleen Barney, co-author of Best Intentions: Ensuring Your Estate Plan Delivers Both Wealth and Wisdom. Rather they operate under dubious assumptions, as Elizabeth Shen, 66, a widow and mother of six in Arcadia, Calif., did when she approached Barney about estate planning. She had decided to appoint her eldest son and daughter co-executors, without telling them first. Barney suggested that she invite all six kids to the planning meeting. When the topic came up, Shen's eldest daughter, who travels a lot, didn't want the responsibility. Says Shen...