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Oct. 3rd, 2006 10:51 am
Oct. 3rd, 2006
The definition of "irony"
Oct. 3rd, 2006 11:05 amOffended by the content, high school student's father is attempting to make the school board ban Fahrenheit 451
I'm reminded of the Jehovah's Witness student in one of my mother's high school classes who insisted that The Crucible was totally unacceptable material, and got assigned Oedipus Rex instead. Further proof that JWs can't read: the student and his parents found nothing wrong or objectionable in Oedipus Rex.
I'm reminded of the Jehovah's Witness student in one of my mother's high school classes who insisted that The Crucible was totally unacceptable material, and got assigned Oedipus Rex instead. Further proof that JWs can't read: the student and his parents found nothing wrong or objectionable in Oedipus Rex.
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Oct. 3rd, 2006 11:24 am
What makes officials corrupt? Disentangling law and culture is a tricky business, but a pair of economists have come up with an ingenious way to do it: studying the frequency of parking violations committed by diplomats in New York City. Since, as their study reports, there is “essentially zero legal enforcement of diplomatic parking violations,” the authors hypothesized that any cross-national variation in parking-violation rates should flow from culture alone. And sure enough, diplomats from countries with high levels of corruption were significantly more likely to incur parking tickets, suggesting that cultural factors rather than legal norms drive a great deal of official misconduct.
The worst offenders were Kuwaitis, who accumulated an astonishing 246 violations per diplomat per year from the end of 1997 through 2002, followed by Egyptians, with 140 violations per diplomat per year; countries whose diplomats incurred no parking tickets included Canada, Israel, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Pointedly related,
The US Embassy in London owes almost a million pounds in unpaid fees, more than any other country in the world.
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Oct. 3rd, 2006 11:04 pmBill Frist: Flip-flopper, or cut-and-run coward?
And yes, this does mean that not only are you giving up on ever finding Osama Bin Laden, but that the entire progress of the war in Afghanistan would be going down the tubes.
And yes, this does mean that not only are you giving up on ever finding Osama Bin Laden, but that the entire progress of the war in Afghanistan would be going down the tubes.
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Oct. 3rd, 2006 11:06 pmWordless pancake recipe.
(And yes, it cheats by labelling the baking soda and flour boxes. That's not the point.)
(And yes, it cheats by labelling the baking soda and flour boxes. That's not the point.)