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This week, Chicago Park District's governing board empowered the city superintendent to lift a decades-old ban on the use of flotation devices like boogie boards on the city's waterways. (The ordinance was established to prevent accidental drownings; government officials were chiefly concerned about liability and the prospect that novice swimmers, imitating highly skilled surfers, might leap into Lake Michigan, especially in harsh winter conditions.) The move will effectively legalize surfing in the heart of the Midwest and make Chicago an unlikely beachfront in the war to extend surfing's influence across the country. (See 10 things...
...case for unity", as he described it during last night's meeting, would seem to bring to an end - for now, at least - the rudderless efforts to unseat the Prime Minister. In light of Labour's collapse in the Euro poll, wavering MPs were probably spooked by the prospect of a general election. (Imposing a second successive unelected P.M., the assumption goes, would be one too many for the electorate to swallow, making a national poll inevitable.) Rebellion was stymied, too, by a failure of the disgruntled to unite behind a policy agenda or a credible successor. When Alan Johnson...
...worse on Monday: Euna Lee, 36 and the mother of a 4-year-old, and Laura Ling, 32, were each sentenced to 12 years in prison by North Korea's highest court. Their crime: illegal entry into the country and "hostile acts." The sentence - "reform through labor" - raises the prospect that the two could be sent into North Korea's notorious system for political prisoners - the so-called kwan li so, which are infamous for their mistreatment of prisoners...
Sessions, Sen. Jeff •tears of 12-year-old boy facing prospect of his mother being deported elicits decidedly unsympathetic reaction - "Enough with the histrionics" - from...
...initial suggested schedule.But in August 2007, just months after Bok’s announcement, Gross stepped down as dean of the College. David R. Pilbeam served as acting dean until Evelynn M. Hammonds took over in June 2008.During this time, though the administration never formally announced the prospect of structured January programming, undergraduates largely assumed that programs like those in the Conley proposals would come to fruition as soon as the calendar shifted. ‘ON A DIFFERENT TRACK’According to Hammonds, “initial plans” for the period were underway when she took...