Year: 2004
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[JJ Letters] No TV is good TV
February 9, 1993 Robert Bianco‘s triumphal return gets a resounding second from this viewer/ reader who also laments the eight-month news void that the boob tube couldn’t fill. The mindless Mickey Mouse channel that calls itself a “24-hour news source” gave us five-second weather reports alternating with 10-second repeats of day-old headlines. If…
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[JJ Letters] BYOB no solution
March 8, 1992 Last Sunday’s unsettling story on fraternity house drinking (“BYOB switch lets frats ease insurance liability”), contained documented evidence of past abuses — and the resulting increase in insurance rates for frat houses which buy and serve beer by the keg. Dianne Gregory, executive director for Alpha Xi Delta fraternity for women, was…
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GoogObits: Not Forgotten (Kenneth Poch, 62; Catalogued Arlington’s Jewish Grave Sites)
Kenneth Poch discovered something entirely knowable but completely hidden. The number of Jewish veterans buried in Arlington Cemetery was a discreet, real number. The number existed. It was a whole number. But it was not a known number. Kenneth Poch changed that. These types of things blow me away. Take for instance, the number of…
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From Britney Spears’ Complaint for Annulment
Additionally pursuant to NRS 125.350 there was no meeting of the minds in entering into this marriage contract and in a court of equity there is cause for declaring the contract void. Originally found here.
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G.I. Killed and Two Wounded by Mortar Fire at Iraq Base
January 4, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 3 — Insurgents firing mortar shells into an American base about 60 miles north of Baghdad killed one soldier on Saturday and wounded two others, a United States military spokesman said. In a separate attack in the capital, insurgents opened fire on an American convoy,…