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...There had been three horsemeat-processing plants here that shipped meat overseas for consumption by humans and kept some behind for consumption by animals. But the two plants in Texas were ordered shut last month when a court of appeals agreed to enforce a 1949 state law banning the sale of horsemeat to be eaten by people. The one in Illinois was unwilling to ship some to me in California because my state's laws make selling horsemeat for dinner illegal, even though I promised not to reveal where I got it. This "Scooter" Libby trial is indeed having chilling...
...familiar story—cash is tight, cheap beer at Uno’s beckons, and that untouched wad of Hamiltons on your roommate’s desk is starting to look mighty appealing. Perhaps you should consider the pursuit of honest fast cash through the re-sale of your old textbooks for a better return. Or should you? Rumor has it that selling books to the Harvard Book Store is more lucrative than toting them over to The Coop, but FM wouldn’t suggest going there unless you want to haggle with a bitter 15-year...
...which he writes and acts in, for Silicon Valley's large South Asian population. A first novel published in India sank like a samosa, but The Peacock Throne is on several hot-new-books lists in the U.K. A French edition will appear next year, and a U.S. sale is imminent. "I'm now working on a fictionalized biography of my great-grandfather, a merchant from Bihar who journeyed to East Bengal and accumulated a large family and great wealth," says the indefatigable Saraf. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that the journey will...
...online booksellers like Amazon.com or even other book stores. This issue came to a head last week, when a troop of Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives marched into the Coop on a mission. Skipping through the aisles, the small army not-so-inconspicuously jotted down ISBN numbers of books for sale. Their hope was to collect these numbers for Crimsonreading.com, their own Web site that acts as a portal for online booksellers, which often sell textbooks (the same as the Coop’s) at much lower prices. The site does make a commission, though it donates its proceeds to charity...
...British political parties nominate candidates for life peerages, which give recipients the title of lord or lady and allow them to sit in Britain's 748-member upper chamber of Parliament. Under a 1925 law, the sale of honors is illegal. Police are now attempting to find out if some peerages recommended since 2001 by all major parties were given in return for donations and secret loans. (More than 90 people have been questioned so far, including former Conservative leader Michael Howard.) They are also investigating whether another law, which says that all donations of more than $10,000 must...