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...slew of lawsuits and the testimony of at least six Nationwide agents, it depends which side you're on. Residents in seven states have filed lawsuits accusing the company of "redlining," in other words refusing to insure people who live in certain undesirable locations. "They wrote out zip codes where agents weren't allowed to pursue business," said Shanna Smith, executive director of the National Fair Housing Alliance, which has been investigating Nationwide since 1991. Those addresses were almost exclusively neighborhoods dominated by blacks and Latinos, she said. Nationwide denies that it did any such thing and says...
...over the issue of access to the President--who has it, how much did they have to pay to get it, what did they get in return--it turns out that the most valuable scrap of information to have is a nine-digit number. That number is a ZIP code, one that tells the White House post office to pluck that letter from the 15,000 addressed to Bill Clinton every day and slip it directly under the President's door. The people who know the code are Clinton's oldest friends and earliest allies. Few of them followed...
...idea of a special ZIP code was George Bush's, but Clinton adopted it shortly after he was elected and soon added a fax number as well. Clinton has given it out to strangers when he wants to hear their stories in full. But most often it's a way for people like Staley to bypass regular channels, which once left her in tears after she'd poured quarter after quarter into a phone at Washington's National Airport. From the day she was handed the magic number, Staley has been faxing a stream of jokes, gossip and encouragement. "Hello...
...decision in the second quarter undid the Elis. Trailing 7-zip, Cozza decided to go for it on fourth-and-eight at the Harvard 40-yard line. Quarterback Blake Kendall connected to Ackley, but Ackley had his feet out of bounds...
Rudenstine triple-pumped his right fist in the air as Harvard fans celebrated Hu's touchdown, and sophomore Ryan Korinke kicked the extra point to put Harvard up 21-zip...