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...very next day, a second e-deal arrived. This time Mumma threatened to sue Omega for $150,000 under antispam laws unless it agreed to settle for $6,250, an arbitrary amount that Mumma considered reasonable. Omega refused to pay, and before it removed Mumma from the Cruise.com mailing list, nine more e-deals landed in his box. Then things got ugly...
It’s no surprise then that the strongest, most consistent denials have come from the presidents of other universities, namely the four other Ivy League presidents said to be on the search committee’s short list. (According to sources, the search committee is not taking candidates’ public denials into account...
...campus, this scene will probably be very familiar to you: Your organization’s leadership elections are a couple weeks away, and you overhear a group of guys in the club having the “who’s running for what” conversation. Apparently the list of candidates is already set in stone—and you are not included in that list. In fact, no one has even mentioned the elections to you. You were thinking about running, but now are reconsidering the thought—you obviously don’t have a chance...
...Freddy vs. Jason, and James Bond has saved the world in 23 hits since 1962. Meanwhile, the Harry Potter series is headed for a Proustian seven. The first four film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's epic rank fourth, ninth, 10th and 17th on the all-time box-office list. The fifth, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, will be calling all wizards on July...
...proposed designating the polar bear as threatened, after starvation and drownings caused by melting sea ice helped cut the animal's global population to fewer than 25,000. By contrast, this year could spell the bald eagle's release from an almost 40-year stay on the list. Elimination of the pesticide DDT and crackdowns on hunting and development have allowed the national bird to rebound from 417 nesting pairs in the lower 48 states in the early 1960s to more than 7,000 today, not to mention a population of 40,000 in Alaska. The government has a year...