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...abuses that the act specifically barred was any "threat to take action ... that is not intended to be taken," a provision that clearly covered an empty threat to sue. But in Brown's case, the district court said the word "could" meant that Brown hadn't received a threat, only a statement that legal action "was possible," sort of a heads-up that other courts seemed to find acceptable...
...unhappy about not being included. Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, wrote to Bush to offer help in putting together what the group called a "comprehensive" agenda, including prevention and law enforcement policies. Peter Hamm, the group's communications director, said the group hadn't received a reply. "We haven't, oddly enough," he said. "They're certainly having a nice conversation about making sure your child has the support they need after an incident occurs, which is laudable. But the issue of prevention clearly is not on the table for this conference...
...Departed is the fourth Scorsese remake, after New York, New York (inspired by the 1945 The Man I Love), Cape Fear and The Age of Innocence (both from novels that had been filmed before). In 2004 the director said he hadn't seen Infernal Affairs and wasn't planning to, but that almost doesn't matter. The Hong Kong movie's headlong confidence in using all resources of cinema (smart-jerky rhythms, a breathless narrative propulsion, the italicizing of a moment by a few frames of close-up slo-mo) to relate a tale of male bonding and betrayal...
...four percent of colleges accept every single applicant. Some graduates do move home after college, but in the 1980s, more 18-to-34-year-olds lived at home than do today, according to census data. Constant distortions like these have unintended consequences. A survey of young Latinos showed many hadn't applied to college at all because they had heard colleges are too selective and too expensive...
...with the explicit goal of helping the environment. That company collects used restaurant cooking oil--the stuff used to fry French fries and doughnuts--and converts it to diesel fuel. It's a well-known technology, championed by the likes of country singer Willie Nelson, but it hadn't been cost competitive until recently. Pacific Biodiesel sells a gallon of its French-fry fuel for $2.84 per gal. to $2.91 per gal.--which was about 60¢ cheaper than a gallon of regular diesel in Hawaii last month. The company now produces about 4 million gal. annually...