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Just following the money that Abramoff spread across Washington should give them plenty to do. So toxic are any campaign donations tied to him that panicked lawmakers from Hastert ($69,000) to Republican Senator Conrad Burns ($150,000) to Democratic Senator Max Baucus ($18,892) can't give it away to charities fast enough. Even President Bush is giving the American Heart Association the $6,000 that he received from Abramoff, his wife and one of the Indian tribes he represented. (See accompanying story...
...sport's governing body, Felicia Canfield, who did not make the Olympic team, said that Nardiello "tried to kiss me on the lips" and that she "along with a dozen other athletes have heard Tim say over the radio, "The only time I want to see your legs spread like that is if I am between them.'" The board suspended Nardiello pending an investigation; the New York State supreme court this week is set to hear his petition for reinstatement. Nardiello's lawyer, James Brooks, told TIME his client made the "legs spread" comment just once, in 2002, to remind...
...landed earlier. The Asian immigrants' distinctive physiognomy may have made it more difficult for them to blend in, but at the same time, their high education and skill levels allowed them quicker entrée into the middle class. Instead of clustering tightly in urban ethnic enclaves, they spread out into suburbia, where they were often isolated. And it was there that their kids, now 20 to 40 years old, grew up, straddling two worlds?the traditional domain their recently arrived parents sought to maintain at home and the fast-changing Western culture of the society outside the front door...
...group of NYU students led a protest in New York outside of a Virgin Megastore to inform consumers of what they thought to be unreasonable copy protection measures put in place by major record labels. Dozens of blogs, Boing Boing among them, picked up on the story, and it spread across interested circles on the ’net like wildfire.What frustrated Zuckerman was that at roughly the same time a far larger protest was underway in Cairo, Egypt: Sudanese refugees were trying to gain humanitarian assistance and the right to resettle. Their protest drew almost no coverage...
...freshmen in Annenberg Hall. But in his first hoedown since tying the knot, the University president proved to be a New man. Nearly half the Class of 2009 took a breather from their books for the chance to hobnob with the Big Man on Campus over a lavish spread of coconut cream pie, eclairs, and hot cider. But Summers, who was joined by his wife of three weeks, Professor of English Elisa New, spent less time on the dance floor this year. Asked to account for his reticence, the president called himself a “married...