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...When I went into the poll...the guy who checked me in told me, ‘You can’t vote here,’” Miller said. “I know he was joking, but I definitely didn’t appreciate...
...fired some cheap shots at Tiger and his wife in a recent skit, or that football halftime shows joked at the prospect of Tiger’s wife attacking him with a golf club? The answer, unfortunately for Tiger, is yes. Having chosen to live a public life, Tiger knows full well that his profession will televise his weekly tournaments, and that commercials, logos, and billboards will print his face all over the world. His public status therefore includes a loss of privacy; though none of this is a legal matter, practically Tiger must know that, like a politician...
...have proposed is not a spending program," former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson explained before Congress in September 2008. It didn't take long for Republicans to take that position. "The stimulus money clearly was a spending bill. TARP was a loan - a loan to be paid back. And we know that a number of the banks are, in fact, paying it back," said McConnell...
...public will then legitimize this decision at the polls," says Alexei Makarkin, deputy head of the Center for Political Technologies, a think tank in Moscow. "There's no room here for Western ideas of plurality, debate or political struggle. Nobody wants that here. The public wants to know exactly what's coming and whom they should vote for well in advance...
...Rights Watch found that at least 39 schools in the Eastern states of Jharkhand and Bihar have been attacked by Naxals in the last year. That doesn't include schools that are occupied by state security forces, of which the total number is still unknown. "When we wanted to know of the exact number of schools that were being occupied by the security forces, the government refused to provide us the details," says Subrata Bhattacharjee, president of the Jharkhand chapter of the People's Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), an advocacy group based in that state. The PUCL filed...