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Swift's refusal to acknowledge her wrongdoing was galling, but her qualified apology--so dependent on the passive voice--is even more offensive to the citizens of the state where she is second in command. By referring to her familial obligations, she seeks pity from those in far more difficult...
McCain and four other Senators--all Democrats--were charged with meeting with Keating as he sought some protection from regulators who were closing in on his crumbling empire. In McCain's case, the charge was especially galling. When Keating asked for a favor and McCain resisted, Keating told another Senator...
The surcharges are particularly galling to pols and consumer groups because they seem to amount to blatant double dipping. For example, a nondepositor who pays $1.50 for ATM cash often pays his own bank a $1-to-$2 fee for the same transaction. Such fees more than cover the cost...
As any bank representative will tell you, financial institutions have to cover the expense of setting up all these ATMs, and if consumers find the fees so unpalatable, they should probably just find a machine operated by their own bank. Many people agree. "I think it's amazing that anyone...
There are parodies of 1920s dance-band music that make you want to revive the genre, and sweetly simple ballads, like All for You, that in an alternate universe might have been standards by now. Sondheim's wit is on engaging display in Exhibit A, a how-to guide to...