Word: coding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Howard Stern can be crude. Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio company, has been making millions off of Stern’s antics for years. Unfortunately for Stern, after Janet Jackson’s bare breast shocked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) into enforcing a new code of decency on the airwaves—clearly a priority for the country right now—Hogan discovered Stern’s curious style and decided the show wasn’t appropriate for radio. Citing its desire to protect Americans from indecency, Clear Channel has removed Stern from...
Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 879 makes it illegal to threaten certain individuals guarded by the Secret Service, including the President, the Vice President and their families. At first blush, you wouldn't think the statute has anything to do with the war over gay marriage. But consider this: that law makes it a federal crime to threaten the husband of Elizabeth Cheney, one of the Vice President's daughters. But it does not outlaw threats against the lesbian partner of Mary Cheney, his younger daughter. Legally speaking, Mary's partner is not a member...
There's more. Veterans' spouses can get an array of perks, everything from free medical care to eligibility for interment in a national cemetery. And the Social Security Administration has paid millions in survivor benefits to parents who have lost a spouse. Sometimes the marital advantages marbled throughout the code show up in far-flung places. For example, the law says those who sell land to the government for a national park--as well as their spouses--can live there until they die. A lesbian partner doesn't have that right...
...three months played a cat-and-mouse game with a group calling itself AZF that has threatened to bomb the railroads - and two other unidentified targets - unless it is paid a hefty ransom. Officials were instructed to communicate with the group via personal ads in a newspaper, using the code name "Big Wolf" for AZF and "Suzy" for the Interior Ministry. A day after one such ad was posted, they received the GPS coordinates of a sophisticated bomb planted along a line in central France, which ballistics experts detonated. Last week French officials tried to deliver the equivalent...
...think hockey would’ve gone over well with the Anglo Saxons and their mead-hall crowd. There is something special about this game, truly a gentleman’s sport. Men (and women) pulverize one another with sticks while adhering (most of the time) to an honor code that is equal parts law-bound and unspoken...