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Somebody has probably already pointed out that the publication date of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code - March 18, 2003 - came just two days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. That isn't a conspiracy, it's just a coincidence. But it does - as fans of The Da Vinci Code often say - make you think...
...District Judge David Cercone ruled in March that the citation, along with the $119.75 court costs imposed by a city court, was clearly unconstitutional. The question, however, is whether the city has a pattern of tolerating this kind of constitutional violation. The ACLU says it found 188 cases from 2005 to 2007 in which people were cited under similar circumstances, despite an entry in the police department's training manual making clear that vulgar speech is not illegal...
With students trickling out, apparently feeling the effects of the death march, the final presenters took the podium. One Flip Huffard, a Captain America-looking type, exuberantly professed that the economic downturn put his division, Restructuring and Reorganization, squarely in the limelight. "We live for these days," he declared before essentially rehashing the presentation of Studzinski, whose division does approximately the same thing, only on an international level...
...potent bipartisan combination already in 2009. When Dodd moved an aggressive, populist credit-card-reform bill out of committee without a single GOP vote, he negotiated with Shelby to craft legislation more appealing to the other side of the aisle. It passed the Senate in late March by a 90-5 vote...
...aftermath of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, Part II: "As I walked in a St. Patrick's Day parade in Lawrence in March 1969, a burst of popping firecrackers caused me to freeze in my tracks and prepare to dive to the pavement. I stayed upright by an act of will. Years later, on another occasion, I was enjoying a walk in the sunshine near the Capitol with Tom Rollins - then my chief of staff - when a car backfired down the street. Tom recalls that I was suddenly nowhere to be seen. Turning around, he saw me flattened...