Category Archives: Dispute

Law schools face lawsuits over job-placement claims

By doris | Published: February 3, 2012

Full Story at USNewsmsnbc.msn.com Adam Bevelacqua graduated from Brooklyn Law School last year with $100,000 in debt but high hopes for his future. He passed the bar on his first try in New York and had internships to highlight on his resume. And, according to his research, the school’s job placement rate for new graduates [...]

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The school that banned mirrors to teach girls a lesson

By doris | Published: September 16, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com In a controversial effort to curb teen vanity, a school in England prohibits makeup and removes mirrors from the girls’ bathrooms Talk about plain dealing. The 14- to 16-year-old girls at Shelley College in West Yorkshire, England have been banned from wearing makeup, and are checked daily for offending eyeliner and [...]

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Gadhafi family reportedly flees to Algeria

By doris | Published: August 29, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com TRIPOLI, Libya — Members of Moammar Gadhafi’s family have entered Algeria, Algeria’s state news agency said Monday, but the whereabouts of the ousted Libyan leader were unknown. Libyan rebels claimed to have killed one of his sons. The report by APS news agency cited Algeria’s Foreign Affairs Ministry as saying Gadhafi’s wife [...]

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Casey Anthony not guilty of murder, other charges in daughter’s death

By doris | Published: July 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — After less than 11 hours of deliberation, a jury Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter. But the jury convicted her on four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to law [...]

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Site will help you decide best time to buy tech gear

By doris | Published: June 20, 2011

Full Story at religion.Blog.CNN.com Washington (CNN) – NBC is calling it a mulligan. During the Sunday broadcast of the final round of golf’s U.S. Open coverage the broadcast showed a taped vignette at the beginning of the show. It featured children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance but omitted them saying the phrase “under God, indivisible.” [...]

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A guide to headache remedies

By doris | Published: May 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Real Simple) — Head hurts? Try one of these doctor-approved pain relievers. Relaxation techniques Best for: Soothing stress before a headache starts. How they work: Simple deep breathing and stretching (neck and shoulder rolls, in particular) relax tense muscles that trigger headaches, says Sheena Aurora, M.D., the director of the Swedish [...]

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Who gets paid in a shutdown? Congress!

By doris | Published: April 8, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.comWHY CAN’T THEY ALL GET ALONG WITH EACH OTHER. THE HAVE TO TO SOMETHING TO GET US BACK ON TRACK. THEY GET PAID AND EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO SIT AND WATCH THEM DO NOTHING,BUT WE HAVE BILLS TO PAY. IS EVERYONE GOING TO WAIT UNTIL THE GOVERMENT PAYS US DON’T THINK SO. [...]

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Ariz. Senate rejects illegal immigration bills

By doris | Published: March 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com PHOENIX — The Arizona Senate soundly defeated five bills aimed at illegal immigration on Thursday in a marked departure from last year, when enactment of a tough local enforcement measure put the state at the heart of a fierce national debate over the issue. Majority Republicans were split in their votes [...]

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Skyrocketing water bills mystify, anger residents

By doris | Published: March 1, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Atlanta (CNN) — Imagine paying as much for water as you do for your mortgage. Residents throughout Atlanta are outraged by hundreds, even thousands of dollars in monthly spikes in their water bills, and have questioned the legitimacy of the charges for years. Now, they’re demanding answers. “I thought we were [...]

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Shootout at the ‘True Grit’ corral: Which film wins?

By doris | Published: February 23, 2011

Full Story atTODAYmsnbc.msn.com The two versions of “True Grit” are like Athens, Greece, and Athens, Georgia: They’ve got the same name, but they’re in totally different worlds. Yet for all their differences, both Westerns found plenty of fans and got plenty of Oscar attention. John Wayne was named Best Actor for the 1969 original, and [...]

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Union approval low, but more still side with labor over gov’t

By doris | Published: February 18, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com Carrie Dann writes:With tens of thousands of public sector workers jamming the halls of the Wisconsin statehouse – and similar labor battles brewing in Ohio and Michigan – Republican governors and Americans around the country are contemplating the state of the unions. The fracas in Madison has emphasized the divide between [...]

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Iowa Wrestler Defaults Rather Than Face Girl

By doris | Published: February 17, 2011

Full Story at NBCSports.msnbc.com DES MOINES, Iowa – A standout Iowa high school wrestler refused to compete against a girl at the state tournament on Thursday, relinquishing any chance of becoming a champion because he says wrestling a girl would conflict with his religious beliefs.

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Fla. School Board Shooting: Purse Used to Smack Gunman Clay Duke Sold for $13,100 on eBay, Says Report

By doris | Published: December 27, 2010

Full Story at CBSNews.com PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (CBS/AP) The purse a woman used to hit a gunman at a Florida Panhandle school board meeting was sold for charity on eBay for $13,100, according to a report. PICTURES: Fla. School Board Shooting The purse’s owner, board member Ginger Littleton, tried to use the purse to [...]

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Report: Significant cheating by FBI agents on exam

By doris | Published: September 29, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — A Justice Department investigation has found that FBI agents, including several supervisors, cheated on an important test covering the bureau’s policies for conducting surveillance on Americans. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine said Monday that his limited review of allegations that agents improperly took the open-book test together or [...]

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John Lennon’s killer fights for freedom, again

By doris | Published: August 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s killer, is up for parole for the sixth time and may be questioned as early as Tuesday, authorities said. Chapman’s latest quest for freedom comes just months short of the 30th anniversary of the death of the former member of the Beatles. [...]

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Manson follower faces parole board for 19th time

By doris | Published: July 6, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES — Leslie Van Houten, the one-time Charles Manson follower long seen as the most likely of his ex-acolytes to win freedom someday, faces her 19th parole hearing on Tuesday with a new lawyer and new case law which may give her the best chance yet for release. Even if [...]

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Little spent on spill cleanup technology

By doris | Published: June 27, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ON BARATARIA BAY, La. — While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts say the [...]

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Massachusetts school district under fire over condom policy

By doris | Published: June 25, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com CNN) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick urged a school district to revise its policy allowing students as young as in elementary schools to get condoms if they are believed to be sexually active. “It is simply not age appropriate to have a program in place for such young children, not to mention [...]

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BP ready to try again to stop oil flow, company says

By doris | Published: May 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP will try again within the next day to cap a well that has gushed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy company said Friday. The latest attempt will involve inserting a tube into a ruptured pipe, collecting oil and sending [...]

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Karzai calls Clinton amid US criticism

By doris | Published: April 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Afghan President Hamid Karzai called Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday after the Obama administration expressed dismay at his assertion a day earlier that the international community was to blame for the controversy over last year’s disputed Afghan election. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Karzai used [...]

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