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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...changing his mind every three days, his running matethough a looker—comes across as a little…light in the skills department, and the pair of them have looked spent for coupla weeks now.” “Hit ’em!” “What’s that, Karl?” “Knockout punch. Has that blowhard Biden ever been seen with an infant not his own—non-white, preferably?” “Come on, Turd Blossom, that trick only works...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: From Republican Headquarters | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...that it was very unregulated.” To mediate between the various participants in the market and correct the inefficiency, the NCAA had to act. “This problem began to lessen between 1991 and 1992 when the NCAA pushed back ‘Pick’em Day,’ and said that [colleges] can’t get a bid before that day,” Roth said. “This increased the flexibility in the market.” After a reorganization of the market under a centralized authority, the researchers found that...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Markets, By Way of The BCS | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Give 'em a taste of their own medicine - that might as well be the motto of Operation Leopard, a new approach to policing adopted in the town of Pitsea in southeast England earlier this year. Local residents had complained of their deteriorating quality of life as reports poured in of mounting theft, vandalism and public drunkenness by gangs of petty criminals known as "hoodies" because of their preference for hooded sweatshirts. The local constabulary came up with an unlikely solution: "We basically decided to harass them," Fergus Caulfield of Essex Police says of the hoodies. Operation Leopard involves police officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Afraid of the Bad-Boy Cops? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...Women are crazy. Ludacris, the rapper whose modest height will always belie his astronomical self-esteem, constantly reminds us that he both subjugates women and deeply respects them. After spitting “So get loose and slide off your damn garments / Show ’em who’s the boss, they take orders from the sergeant,” he gets sentimental at the end, reclining among his adoring hos. “I love y’all,” he says; “There’s not enough time...

Author: By Matthew H. Coogan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Ludacris | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

Curt Olson, editorial page editor at the Willoughby News-Herald, says "there's been a lot of negativity about the rescue. People have all been saying, 'Let 'em suffer.' " Personally, he says, "there's a side of me that agrees with the populist feeling that this is something that Wall Street created with their exotic financial instruments, and if it was a businessman here in Willoughby who tried to do something cute and it blew up in his or her face, they would be stuck with a bankrupt company. On the other hand, we have companies here, Steris, Lincoln Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Main Street Is Mad: Scenes from a Financial Crisis | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

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