A brief for Justice Kennedy - New York Times
27 May 2012, 7:58 pm
THRILLING as it was to hear a sitting president endorse marriage rights for gay and lesbian Americans, there is one man whose opinion on the subject matters more than President Obama’s. Justice Anthony Kennedy is the likely deciding vote when ...

brief: Pedestrian killed after being struck by Metra train in Lombard - MENAFN
27 May 2012, 12:56 pm
May 27, 2012 (Chicago Tribune - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Metra train service on the Union Pacific West lines was delayed this morning after an inbound train struck a pedestrian in Lombard, officials said. Train No. 504, headed ...

brief-Lynx Receives Notice of Allowance for Hyperlinking Electronic Documents Patent - Yahoo Finance
26 May 2012, 11:02 am
DENVER, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- brief-Lynx, a leading provider of hyperlinking products and services and its brief-Lynx electronic document presentation solution for business and legal professionals, today announced that the Company ...

A brief Look at 'A Hispanic Conundrum' - NationalJournal.com
25 May 2012, 1:48 pm
Texas's state's rapid population growth netted it four new congressional seats in reapportionment this cycle, and about two-thirds of the 4.3 million people Texas added from 2000 to 2010 were Hispanic. Yet the Lone Star State isn't really ...

The Bodega: A brief History of an Urban Institution - Time
25 May 2012, 12:08 pm
In some parts of America, it’s called a “party store.” In others it’s called a “corner store.” And elsewhere it’s a “grocery”. In New York City, the term for a small, local retailer that sells everything from beer to diapers ...

A brief history of Vermont's quirky State Championship - Burlington Free Press
25 May 2012, 11:25 am
Thunder Road’s Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic gains significant importance to its already sterling prestige, as it serves as the first round of the four-race Vermont State Late Model Championship Series between drivers at the Barre track ...

A brief look at the 8 stadiums to be used for the European Championship - Calgary Herald
25 May 2012, 10:49 am
The National Stadium in Warsaw will host the opening match of the Euro 2012 tournament, when Poland plays Greece on June 8. The stadium was built on the site of the Tenth Anniversary Stadium, which hosted football matches and other sporting ...

Robocalls: Tory legal brief attacks those behind bid to overturn election results - Calgary Herald
24 May 2012, 5:24 pm
Just days after a judge overturned the election of a Conservative MP in Toronto, the Conservative Party of Canada has moved aggressively to try to shut down a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn the election of seven other Tory MPs. The party filed a ...

A brief History of Time Travel (in Movies) - Atlantic Online
24 May 2012, 12:59 pm
If ever a movie earned its time-travel plotline, it's Men in Black 3, which attempts to revive a movie franchise largely forgotten by audiences after its disappointing second entry. Men in Black 3 sees Will Smith's Agent J going back to the 1960s to save ...

Microsoft's So.cl: A brief Tour - PC World
21 May 2012, 11:01 am
Microsoft's social networking experiment, So.cl, a site designed around sharing Web content pulled from Bing searches, is now available for all users. Launched in December and aimed at students, So.cl is not meant to compete with popular social networks ...