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...youthfulness has gone and caution slipped in. Once seen as sympathetic to, rather than working toward, the republican push and the cause of Aboriginal reconciliation, Costello has detached himself from the liberal-progressive caravan on social issues. These days he's either pitching to his party's conservative base or trying to master the populism that explains Howard's hold on the masses. Costello is not soft. The argument that he's had an easy run and needs a stint in opposition to forge his character smells of retribution for Costello's unfortunate smirk. Just as valid, if no less...
...Cereality's attempt to crack some Grape-Nuts may have backfired with at least one part of its most loyal customer base--college students. A group from the University of Florida launched a "Cereal Solidarity" campaign last summer on the website freeculture.org criticizing Cereality for bullying rival restaurants with those warning letters. The protests led to an online petition--drawing hundreds of signatures--calling for an end to business-method patents and asking Cereality to withdraw its patent application. Roth says the group is more concerned with ideology than cereal toppings. "Freeculture turned Cereality into a poster child for anti...
...thought the nearly five-year Enron saga has now come to an end, with both men set for sentencing on Sept. 11, you may be as off base as the company's financial statements. Attorneys for Lay and Skilling vow to appeal, and there is precedent - all the way to the Supreme Court - to attack a white-collar fraud conviction based on the fine points of the kind of jury instructions given by Judge Simeon Lake. "A 'willful blindness' instruction is a very good ground [for appeal]," says Houston defense attorney Joel Androphy. Willful blindness, which Judge Lake specifically cited...
...satisfaction,” Siner wrote in the e-mail. According to the e-mail, the group will “provide an integrated resource on campus for the cultivation of well-being and the exploration of personal growth and meaning in students’ lives, through the research-based methods of Positive Psychology.” “With an initiative like this, we can really help people,” said Jessica Glazer, who is the head teaching fellow for Positive Psychology. Although the group has not yet been approved by the College, Siner has already formed...
...Both supporters and opponents of the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment sound similarly dire alarms - about the need to either (a) "preserve the sanctity of marriage" or (b) "avoid enshrining discrimination into the Constitution." Though no one expects the amendment to pass, nothing can rally the Republicans' conservative base more quickly than a revived clarion call about the threat of moral decay embodied by same-sex marriages. And the base has been galvanized. In 2004, 13 states amended their constitutions to exclude gays from marrying. At least seven more will put anti-gay marriage measures on the ballot this November...