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...listing is back up, and the Pynchon-penned teaser is downright tantalizing: "Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead...
...Republican Party has not always sought to deliver democracy through the barrel of a gun. In fact, right up until 9/11, it would be fair to say that it was almost overly averse to any form of military intervention in the domestic affairs of other nations. Most Republicans, for example, opposed America’s interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo during the 90s, humanitarian operations that involved no clear American interests. While I support both interventions, they are great examples of former Republican military restraint...
...fair...the advising changes have not been in place long to have a noticeable effect,” McKay Professor of Computer Science and Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in an e-mail. “But the real question is not whether the College is doing enough but whether it is doing the right things. It’s not clear to me that replacing proctors by a large number of non-resident advisors, many of whom are not faculty, is automatically an improvement, for example...
...spend a fair amount of time on Hill matters. Part of that is because of my background in the House of Representatives, and part of it because my continuing job as Vice President is in the Senate. Most people don't realize I'm actually on the Senate payroll. That's where my paycheck comes from...
...excited and stop paying your bills, let's talk about how the court reached its decision. In 1977, debt collectors who swore over the phone, pounded on doors, or impersonated cops to extract payments were "a widespread and serious national problem," according to Congress. So it passed the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which prohibited abuse by collection firms (not creditors) in seeking payment of personal (not commercial) debts. Congress stressed that it wasn't protecting deadbeats, at the time the approximately 4% of debtors who just refused to pay their bills, but the "vast majority" of people...