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...July 4, 1938, just months after the Anschluss, Germany's annexation of Austria. Regardless of whether that was a step Arnold's father took gladly, in America we don't visit the sins of the father onto the children. All the same, Arnold did not always take care to avoid those associations himself. One of the guests he invited to his 1986 wedding to Shriver was Austrian presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim. At the time Waldheim was revealed to have been a former Nazi Party member. But Schwarzenegger has tried to neutralize that question many times over. In the past decade...
...irony to the situation is the College’s claim that it is necessary in order to protect your privacy, and the fact that it has been justified by administrators who actively refuse to understand the technical details necessarily involved. I have done all that I can to avoid this situation...
Sonnenberg said he suspected that the absence on Wednesday of another porter whom the prosecution had announced as a witness was a deliberate move to avoid further contradictions or miscues...
...almost all of North America it has now become almost impossible for farmers planting natural crops to avoid genetic pollution from migrating GM seeds. In Iowa in 2001, for example, only 1 percent of the fields were planted with genetically engineered wheat (the infamous StarLink variety, in this case), yet eventually 50 percent of Iowa’s wheat fields were contaminated. North of the border, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, organic farmers were so affected that they are in the process of filing a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto for making it impossible for them to grow...
...shares for clients with more than $25,000 to invest. Smythe calls this "very disturbing evidence" that brokers are either as fee-befuddled as their clients--or blatantly self-serving. I call it proof that the only investing watchdog you can rely on is yourself. Here's how to avoid a load of trouble...