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...meanwhile if you're feeling particularly spiteful toward an old professor or especially eager to exact revenge on an administrator, there's always the old stuff-the-gooey-egg-in-the-mailbox bit. And when you see them earnestly pontificating in Monday's lecture, you can picture their look of shock when they open their mailbox the next morning...
Exasperated after the close of a Congress paralyzed by frequent Republican filibusters, a few Senate alumni have risen to take action -- and exact pledges of reform. Action, Not Gridlock, a bipartisan group, led by former Sens. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), wrote to this year's Senate candidates asking them to announce their support for a ban on filibusters. "Senators are elected to make decisions, not to block decision-making," it reads. Senate offices began kicking around the idea today, although no official responses emerged...
Halikman's exact reason for resigning is also unclear...
Another assault on nearby Oxford St., also by 5-7 males, was reported at the exact same time...
Aristide: First, we must not sit and dwell on the sins that have been committed against us until we become angry and want vengeance. No. Vengeance is a trap. If the Haitian people exact vengeance for our sorrows, we will be stepping once again into the trap in which we've been caught for so long...