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...stained-glass lighting within the arched-ceiling architecture is not enough to put the fear of God into trespassers, the not-so-subtle security will keep them away. That has been a feature of the mausoleum long before its latest celebrity client. Family members and plot holders must pass through guards or security camera-manned doors in order to visit loved ones in the structure. Curious wandering is forbidden. Roger Sinclair, 77, a historian of cemeteries who has bought a plot for himself in the Great Mausoleum, was not made to feel welcome, even as a future occupant. Says Sinclair...
...Delta's main corporate phone number - but that number is not publicized and "it is not suggested" that customers call it. A representative at that number said they do not take customer complaints and directed me to the website. (Read "Twittering Over JetBlue's All-You-Can-Jet Pass...
...Enron," says Chris Clark, a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. "I don't mean to sound unsympathetic, but it's difficult for me to imagine that Congress would legislate relief for one group of aggrieved investors when people lost billions of dollars in Lehman Brothers. Are they going to pass a statute that says you get your money back if you lost it at Lehman...
...people will love that too. Making health care available to everyone, even if some people - young, healthy people - who are not buying in now are told they have to join up, will also be well received. The odds are better than even that a bill containing those provisions will pass in Congress this fall...
...public show of neutrality on the issue, saying any change in al-Megrahi's status was a matter for Scotland, it turns out that a British minister once gave assurances to Libya that neither Prime Minister Gordon Brown nor his Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, "would want Mr. Megrahi to pass away in prison." This revelation, embedded in one of the newly released minutes of a meeting between Scottish and Libyan officials that was held in Glasgow in March 2009, has been confirmed by Miliband. "We did not want [al-Megrahi] to die in prison. No, we weren't seeking...