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...Shut Up! A curious case may mean that debt collectors can't threaten to sue their targets unless they really mean...
...Supreme Court has ruled that Presidents have immunity and that cabinet officers have ?qualified immunity,? meaning that they cannot be sued unless, for example, they violated someone?s constitutional rights and had a pretty good idea they were doing so. That leaves open the question of whether Vice Presidents get immunity, but the consensus among constitutional scholars is that they do, so Cheney lucks out. As behind-the-scenes guys, Rove and Libby probably get only qualified immunity, which means they?ll have to show that the complaint fails to state any legal claims, if they want...
...your working day involves listening to or making presentations, then the last thing you'll want to do after hours is sit and look at more slides on a screen - unless you happen to be attending a Pecha Kucha Night, that is. Named after the onomatopoeic Japanese phrase for the sound of talking, Pecha Kucha Nights are spreading like wildfire[an error occurred while processing this directive] through the creative professions, based on a highly entertaining premise: invite a group of leading designers to talk about their current work, using only 20 slides, with each slide on screen for just...
...ready to hate your government again. Unless a radical new stance is taken and some laws are changed, we will see the effects of this brain drain everywhere. The CDC might be short on biologists when the pandemic hits. Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers. Iraq veterans may be given poor medical care at the VA hospitals due to huge nursing shortages...
...Sunni insurgent groups, and Sunni politicians with no ties to the insurgency, have said the violence will continue unless the Shi'ite militias are reined in. Some of this may be a disingenuous justification for the Sunni insurgent violence that has rocked Iraq since the summer...