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...reports of looting in Chile's earthquake-ravaged cities run counter to the country's vaunted sense of Swiss-style order. But overconfidence may have tripped up the government as it sought to project its newly minted membership in the league of developed nations...
...membership is screaming 'Hell no!' on this deal," says a GM worker from Rochester. "We will no longer allow them to hold the old 'Do it, or we will close your plant' b.s. over us any longer. Our feeling is basically, Go ahead. They have already taken too much for us to care anymore." (See 10 milestones on the road to GM's bankruptcy...
...trip!" is a common explanation for what brought them to CPAC. But more and more young attendees - who pay just $25 for a three-day pass, vs. $175 for adults - are highly articulate conservatives running their school or state Young Republican chapters. "We've seen a huge uptick in membership in the last year," says Zach Howell, national chairman of the College Republicans. Just because they're conservative, though, doesn't mean they don't know how to party. (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...
...least, until now. Early this February, the Hasty Pudding Club ebulliently announced to its members that it would be conducting an “open punch,” abandoning the invite requirement for the first event of its spring membership tryout...
...numbers support this theory. All told, the Pudding punched some 115 students this spring, who were joined by only 30 additional “non-punch” candidates. The process may have been open, but a full 80 percent of those considered for membership received an official invitation...