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When enough isn't enough
25 May 2012, 12:24 pm
THE Thomson affair has become a malign tumour eating away at the Gillard government. In other circumstances the body would have the resistance to throw off its pernicious effect, but a weakened administration with a fragile grip on office has almost no immunity.
Business News 25.5.2012
25 May 2012, 10:50 am
In Business News this week: Czech government approves austerity measures but might run into problems securing EU funds; PM Nečas speaks of the consequences a Greek exit from the eurozone would have on the Czech Republic; the biggest Czech betting firm Tipsport buys its competitor; Czechs smoke less and most of them want a ban on smoking in public spaces; Czechs lie in their CVs more than other ...
Bradley Manning military trial: group petitions for a more open court
25 May 2012, 1:59 am
Coalition says WikiLeaks suspect's trial is being conducted amid far more secrecy than the alleged 9/11 plotters in Guantanamo The military trial of the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning is being conducted amid far more secrecy than even the prosecution of the alleged 9/11 plotters in Guantanamo, a coalition of lawyers and media outlets protest. Led by the New York-based Center for ...
On Being Overly “Healthy”
11 May 2012, 11:52 am
The story ends rather anti-climactically. I have an extremely—borderline problematically—low blood pressure, but no heart problems; the primary cause of my blood pressure, dizziness and near-blackouts was a major sodium deficiency. That’s right; not enough salt in my diet. Pretty much everyone in the world has the reverse problem.
Governor Cuomo Invokes Robert Moses as a Role Model
4 May 2012, 12:32 pm
Just build it. (AP) Last year, The Observer lamented an infrastructural ambivalence on the part of governors on both sides of the Hudson , and wondered if the great states of New York and New Jersey had not finally given up the ghost of shovels in the ground begun grandly, if problematically, by Robert Moses nearly a century ago. Governor Andrew Cuomo assuaged some of those fears with his grand ...
The French vs. American Moms Debate Continues
3 May 2012, 8:46 am
To assume that an entire nation of parents is great, and another nation terrible, is as silly as assuming that an entire set of people born in under one birth sign are exactly the same. But that hasn't stopped the ongoing "Where is it better to be a mom?" and "Where are the moms, themselves, better?" debate. Part of this is because books of this ilk keep being sold, which prompts more attention ...
Movie Review - 'Safe' chaotic, complicated
28 April 2012, 11:19 am
*1/2 Safe Jason Statham plays a broken man given reason to live by a young math prodigy (newcomer Catherine Chan) pursued by Chinese gangsters, their Russian rivals, and corrupt New York cops. Filmmaker Boaz Yakin ("Remember the Titans'') manages his many chaotically moving parts mostly as intended, but fails to coax out the emotion he's seeking from Statham and Chan. In English and subtitled ...
World - problematically
Israel to Hizbullah: Next Time We Fight to Win - Front Page
17 May 2012, 6:58 pm
And most problematically, it has kept importing Iranian rockets, missiles, and other weaponry via Syria, and now—UNIFIL or no UNIFIL—has over 50,000 rockets and missiles that, as Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah boasts, can hit any part of Israel.
DDoS Attacks (Part II) - The New Line of Defense - Thetech Herald
14 May 2012, 3:03 am
Such services don’t come cheap, however, and more problematically, some dynamic attacks can be designed to travel straight to the origin servers. Finally, there are now some specialized DDoS mitigation hardware packages that have come into the market.
North Carolina strengthens same-sex marriage ban - CBC
8 May 2012, 9:11 pm
"The proposed language is problematically vague, untested, and threatens to upend years of settled law," wrote a four-person legal team from the UNC school of law. "In prohibiting state recognition or validation of 'domestic legal unions,' the proposed ...
The Folly of the FTC's Section Five Case Against Google - Forbes
6 May 2012, 6:57 pm
Most problematically, Commissioner Rosch has suggested that Section Five could address conduct that has the effect of “reducing consumer choice” without requiring any evidence that conduct actually reduces consumer welfare—a theory that ...
Politicians and pension plans - calgaryherald.com
6 May 2012, 11:48 am
problematically, when public sector defined benefit plans have liabilities, it is taxpayers who most often pay. In Alberta, taxpayers alone are now liable for just over $10.1 billion in various public sector pension liabilities. The most expensive chunk of ...
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