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Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC, pronounced alternately R-O-T-C and rot-see) lore is that two years ago a midshipman in uniform was asked by a professor to leave the class. But today, even strolling by a peace rally, onlookers are just curious, not irate...
...finally at peace. The government paid $2,000 to her family to dismantle what was left of their home and rebuild it a few hundred meters away?beyond where the water could reach. The authorities then shut the pumping station and left the dike to rot. The wetland she had once labored to destroy has returned to water; where her old house once stood, her son has floated a huge cage to raise fish. Migratory birds, such as rare swans and spoonbills, have returned to the area. WWF lent Hu enough money to buy a sow, which will give birth...
...alleges that after the Bell breakup, AT&T failed to adequately inform customers of their options to lease, purchase or return their old telephones. Customers who took no action continued to be charged for renting their phones, a fee recorded on their bill in vague line items like TRAD ROT DSK MISC (traditional desktop rotary). Several former AT&T and Lucent employees say the companies pressured them to keep people leasing. AT&T says the suit has no merit and promises to defend itself "vigorously," and on Friday the Federal Communications Commission issued a call for public comment, which could...
...hope you all rot [in] hell with your yamukas [sic],” the flier reads...
Certainly there is work to be done. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, Abdullah has sent clear signals--albeit in the quiet, gradual Saudi way--that Saudis must face the rot in their own society. One after another, he called in groups of Saudi imams, teachers, journalists and businessmen and warned them against taking Saudi Arabia's puritanical creed of religion, known as Wahhabism, to unacceptable extremes. Though not to Washington's complete satisfaction, Abdullah began tightening up on potential terrorist financing, scrutinizing Islamic charities and freezing some suspect bank accounts...