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With an 111-page legal brief that has surprised legal scholars, Brown reversed course and repudiated his previous statements indicating he'd likely support the legality of Prop 8. Instead, on Friday, he urged the state's Supreme Court to overturn the vote, a move that would infuriate conservatives who are still white-hot mad over the court's historic 4-3 decision that earlier this year prohibited all forms of discrimination against gays, and mandated the state issue marriage licenses to gay couples. In a wide-ranging interview, Brown told TIME that his view of the legal merits...
...latest catchphrase on college campuses: the civil-military gap. With Millennials embracing national service in droves, more students around the country are questioning the Vietnam-era dogma that drew a bright line between the Peace Corps and the War Corps. Borrowing a page from the Greek historian Thucydides, who observed that "a nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors has its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools," many of today's students are pushing for Sparta to make more inroads into Athens. By uniting the best students and the best...
Although he missed Bush, Zeidi hit the sweet spot in the last news cycle: media outlets everywhere were looking for something fresh to show and tell their consumers. The Barack Obama salvation show was in hiatus, the Mumbai terror attacks was fading from the front page, the Mideast peace process was stalling (again), the late night comics had run out of jokes about Gov. Rod Blagojevich's hair... and everybody had had quite enough of grim tidings about the economy. For newsrooms, a man throwing shoes at a lame duck American President was like Christmas come early. (See "Aftermath...
...fact, it now appears KPMG, along with the other auditors of the Madoff feeder funds, did very little to ensure investors weren't being ripped off. Observers say it's likely that all the accounting firms did was check the statements that Madoff himself produced. In the 64-page document Rye Select sent to all its potential investors is the statement "Valuation provided by the counter party affiliate [Madoff] will not be subject to independent review...
...Brief History Of: The Times Square Ball PAGE...