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...council members spoke against the bill, which passed 54-4. The council had no choice but to accept some downsizing constitutional amendment; however, it was free to design its own scheme for cutting membership...
...masterminds behind the scheme have a lot to with how the game plays out. Each store will inevitably differ from the next. Although Abercrombie has a home base located in Columbus, Ohio, each manager has a different game plan. Jones, who forged a friendship with the manager of his Chicago branch, gained an inside perspective on her unique approach...
...fact is that no one on this campus is so important that they need to be constantly accessible. Despite their self-important delusions, all the editors and heads of student groups in our midst are essentially trivial people. In the grand scheme of things, they are fundamentally unimportant. Nothing they do has any critical impact on anything. Any problem that could possibly arise in the context of extracurricular collegiate life can wait. Most can probably wait days, but at the very least, every conceivable hiccup can wait until e-mail has been checked or messages have been played...
...official Lucy Edwards and her husband, Peter Berlin, owner of the company through whose accounts the illegally transferred billions were moved, pleaded guilty in New York to money laundering charges. "Presumably, the government is going to try and get them to cooperate and tell investigators how this money laundering scheme worked, what its mechanisms were," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "And obviously they'll be looking to discover whether there was a much larger web of people involved - either Russian officials surreptitiously moving out money, or other international banking figures...
...premise of this would-be son of Forrest Gump is an idealistic Ponzi scheme. The receiver of a good deed must do good deeds for three other people. They, in turn, must benefit a total of nine. Before long, millions are doing unto others, assuming Saddam Hussein and his like are kept out of the loop. It's an appealing idea but--sorry to be a meanie--seriously stunted. Hyde tells far more than she shows. A plodding love affair, tinny dialogue and awkward symbolism don't help. It's as if the novelist had ceded her imagination...