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...next month or two, Jaeger said, the Union will focus on continuing to explore alternatives to layoffs and then turn its energies to questions of staff placement...
...Berlusconi largely quieted that episode with explicit denials of anything "spicy" in his relationship with Letizia. But a potentially more damaging turn came last week, when investigators in the southern city of Bari confirmed that they were probing accusations that a local businessman, Giampaolo Tarantini, paid for women to attend dinners and parties at Berlusconi's private Rome residence, Palazzo Grazioli, and his villa on the island of Sardinia. One of the women, Patrizia D'Addario, had told Milan daily Corriere della Sera that she was paid several thousand euros to attend two dinner parties at Palazzo Grazioli last fall...
...while FlyBy supports every Harvard student's Constitutionally-guaranteed right to complain--which we gleefully exercise when lowly Cabinet members and famous TV personalities send us off to the real world, or when the College Events Board decimates our quality of life by failing to magically turn its paltry funds into Lil' Wayne--we're also willing to give credit where credit is due. So far, the Athletic Department has resisted the urge to get rid of varsity programs like its counterpart over...
...decision to adjourn Congress before taking a vote on an energy bill last August were lost on the Twitterati. Out of a torrent of mocking tweets came the site Hoekstraisameme.com, which compiles parodies posted by other users who fail to empathize with Hoekstra's plight. The site manages to turn the congressman's name into both a verb and a noun at once: "To Hoekstra is to whine using grandiose exaggerations and comparisons," it asserts, while also inviting users to "submit your Hoekstra." (Read "Congress's New Love Affair with Twitter...
...funds, he hasn't exactly played the ebullient cheerleader he's famous for being on issues like alternative energy. That's largely because he knows a chorus of voices in Florida and the rest of the nation still fears that bullet trains, despite the federal largesse, will turn out to be a white elephant whose costs have been lavishly underestimated by the Obama Administration. Even the Orlando Sentinel, which covers a city that would absorb a large share of the $1.5 billion Florida will seek to help fund a $2.5 billion Orlando-Tampa HSR line, warned in a recent editorial...