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...Dutch town on the Sri Lankan coast, Z.A.M. Fahim, 45, a restaurant owner, has found 32 bodies before midday. He walks toward what was once a busy junction in the town and claims that the giant swamp that now obscures the ground hides 500 more corpses. To prove his point, he walks over to a marshy landscape of tires, rafters and mud. "There," he says, with a note of triumph, pointing to yet another body, lying in the open. "We are standing on bodies right...
...adjustment to make.“The transition is very different in the fall,” Kharrazi says. “I was coming from a large team to a small team, and as a freshman, the biggest thing was feeling I had to prove myself.”That she did quickly. Her drive to succeed sped her to the top, and she found her niche with her other teammates, bonding with them and sharing a drive to succeed.“Everyone was very welcoming,” Kharrazi says. “Because we all have...
...novel but not unheard-of position that the law required it to think of Brown as essentially an idiot, or in legal terms, "the least sophisticated debtor." Viewed this way, Brown could easily have understood the letter as a threat to sue. She now gets the chance to prove her claim that the Card Service Center almost never sues and, therefore, the letter was deceptive. If she wins, she and other members of the class can recoup whatever losses they actually suffered (compensation for a job lost, say, or a mortgage application rejected because of the letter) plus attorneys' fees...
Landing a spot at this year’s Harvard-Yale tailgate is starting to look a lot like Harvard’s admissions process—there’s an application with a essay, in which student groups must prove why they are “a valuable...
...what's legal and what's not when it comes to pretexting - just ask the Hewlett-Packard lawyers. In addition to the states that have anti-pretexting laws, general fraud statutes may cover pretexting, but those statutes don't specifically refer to the practice and they require proving intent and financial damages, a bar prosecutors often can't meet. Winning these kinds of cases can be difficult, says Robert Gellman, a Washington-based privacy consultant, because "with most privacy suits it's hard to prove you were actually damaged if you didn't lose your...