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Observers suggested that this was a sign that Madoff was maneuvering to avoid charges against the rest of his family, noting that none of the 11 counts he admitted to - including fraud, perjury and theft from an employee-benefit fund - involved conspiracy...
...response, the district adopted the maintenance of a “safe, nurturing, and healthy school environment” as one of its goals for the current school year. Parents at the meeting said that while experiences with teachers were generally positive, students still reported encountering bullying and theft outside of the classroom. Most parents agreed that maintaining a positive school culture should be a major priority. “I’d rather have my kid be a nice person than pass the MCAS,” said parent Debra Gustafson. Some parents also noted that establishing...
...rushed out a paperback response to the economic crisis called Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan, which is on the New York Times best-seller list, and the ratings for her TV show are among the highest at CNBC. She promotes savings accounts for TD Ameritrade and hawks identity-theft kits on her website. Requests for her to speak, at $80,000 a pop, are flowing in from all over the world. It's a sign of just how bad things are that watching her is so compelling--in a rubbernecking sort of way--because people have done such reckless...
...message wasn't about polar bears or sea levels but the essential injustice of climate change. Unjust because in the U.S. and around the world it is those least responsible for climate change who will suffer the most from warming, and because it is a form of "generational theft," as one activist put it, with the young standing to inherit a ruined Earth. "My generation has blown it," said Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, one of several politicians who joined the march. "But this power is going to be fueled by the young people...
...gives the once politically ambitious Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev at least some good news in the face of the Russian government's continuing campaign against them. Later this month, the two men, who are already serving multiyear prison terms, will face fresh charges of embezzlement and grand theft...