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Then came the midterm elections of 1910. The G.O.P. lost control of the House, and Roosevelt began criticizing Taft's policies in print. The final rupture occurred a year later when Taft's Attorney General filed an antitrust suit against the U.S. Steel Corp. because of a 1907 acquisition that Roosevelt had personally approved. T.R. was outraged. The decision to challenge Taft soon followed. T.R.'s campaign would not succeed, but the ideals that he and his Bull Moose Party enunciated in 1912 would resonate in American political life for decades. They still do. They shaped much of Franklin Roosevelt...
...that was fine to men like Rockefeller. "The day of combination is here to stay," he once said. "Individualism is gone. Never to return." He hadn't reckoned on Roosevelt. Five months into his presidency, T.R. took Wall Street by surprise. He launched an antitrust suit that demanded the breakup of Northern Securities, a holding company organized to consolidate three railroads in the Pacific Northwest. By targeting that company, Roosevelt had also chosen to move against the man who epitomized the empire of money, New York financier J. Pierpont Morgan...
...tennis lesson who gets a bloodsucker stuck to her arm. It gradually emerges, and we see it?s a small homunculus named Yamada (as in "Ya mada?s so ugly, she looks like a bloodsucker"). But the bit about a girl asked by a guy in a yellow fur suit to pull on his umbilical cord? on that one I was with the girl, who says, "Honestly, I haven?t the foggiest." The prankster and his two cohorts shrugs off her bafflement by explaining, "Some days people laugh, some days they don?t. Today?s skit was adult-oriented...
...young girl at the center of what could be a groundbreaking online liability suit was able to set up a MySpace listing in 2005 when she 13 years old, despite the website's rules prohibiting anyone under 14 creating a posting. Solis said the two exchanged e-mails for a month and then swapped cellphone numbers. They agreed to meet on a Friday in mid-May, went out for a hamburger, a movie and then drove to an Austin apartment complex parking lot, where the alleged assault took place...
...Though MySpace has not commented specifically on the lawsuit, its security director, Hemanshu Nigam, a former federal prosecuctor, said this week the company "remains dedicated to a multi-pronged approach that also involves education and collaboration with law enforcement, teachers, parents and members." Even before the landmark suit was filed, the company had been criticized by several state attorneys general for its failure to put in place stricter verification procedures...