... campaign, presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National Restaurant Association, Cain battled two sexual harassment claims involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My ... a termination settlement," Cain told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later by radio host, Laura Ingraham, Cain suddenly remembered the i...

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... 6.5 million households that now receive signal via antennae rather than from satellite or cable will turn on their sets on the day of the switch to see snow, the fact is that those folks represent about 2% of the American populous, and tend to be people who don't consider television to be a priority ... or who may find greater productivity as the result of the death of their television signal. While some might ... that those people will not have enough voice to raise a stink. Their sets will merely become trash. One overall affect, then of the decision to do away with analog television ...

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... trade secrets from her former company, Motorola Inc., but was acquitted of charges of economic espionage for China. Jin illegally downloaded 1,000 of the company's proprietary documents, which included important business secrets before trying to board a plane to Beijing. Federal agents found the files on her computer and other electronic devices during a random security search at the airport (Kelleher). Jin simultaneously worked for ... he couldn't rightfully determine that she meant to betray the United States. Prosecutors attempted to highlight her as part of a much broader Chinese-ru...

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... . The fact that the code is available for everyone has another advantage - the bugs and security problems are fixed faster because there is a large community of programmers all over the world who work on these problems. Because of that these programs stay stable and secure for the end-users. And finally, if you have any problems you can ask for help from the ... community of users and developers of these programs and usually you should get help quickly. On the other side, not everything is great about the open-source applications. To begin with, in most cases they do not come with suppor...

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... 's managing director and chairman next month after defeating Mexican Central Bank chief Agustin Carstens. Lagarde was backed by the United Kingdom, Germany, and most European powers, as well as some Asian and African nations. The United States Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner joined the group of supporters right before Lagarde was voted in (Rooney) "Minister Lagarde's exceptional talent and broad experience will provide ... Strauss-Kahn, who was recently arrested in New York for sexual assault. Lagarde is the first woman to hold this position and was selected by a consensus vote (Rooney),...

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... psychological, emotional, spiritual, and physical force if need be (Lengel). In 2009, two of the church's top members, Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, went on record for the first time since leaving the group. From the inside circle, Rathbun and Rinder both saw the abuse being dealt by the church. Their first report listed several issues involving Scientology's highest leaders, particularly David ... Miscavige, who succeeded L. Ron Hubbard as Scientology's leader. The issues included physical abuse of staff, mental abuse and cruelty ... doesn't necessarily line up with the sanity scale. ...

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... was provoked by post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses. Sowell, who is an ex-Marine, abused the bodies after the women had died, and then stashed their bodies around his house, prompting neighbors to complain of a foul stench, which they believed was coming from a neighborhood sausage shop. On July 22nd, he was convicted of 11 counts of aggravated murder ... and more than 70 other charges, including abusing corpses and kidnapping. The defense attorneys are pressing for a life sentence without parole because of Sowell's mental instability. However, experts believe ......

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... Forensic evidence concludes that a sexual encounter between Strauss-Kahn and the housekeeper undoubtedly occurred, but little else of what the accuser has said during the case is believable (Dwyer). The holes in the case include the ... again, the new discoveries will ease his case. Prosecutors from the office of District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who originally believed they had an extremely strong case because of the accuser's testimony, plans to tell the court that they "have ... ). "It is a mess, a mess on both sides," said one official (Dwyer). Additionally, the housekeeper met...

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... has added a constitutional ban on the union of same-sex couples in the state. Amendment 2 would classify a marriage as a union that is only allowable between a man and a woman. To overturn the amendment, less than 60 percent of votes against it would be needed. Amendment 2 received 62 percent of votes of support, denying those in ... it is an unnecessary feature since there is a law in existence already that denies same-sex couples to marry. They worry that the wording of the amendment is too vague and that there will be problems for both straight and gay couples who are not married and o...

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... are starting to turn to the environment. Offshore drilling, in particular, has become issue as voters seem more concerned with the lightening of their pocket books. The way each candidate addresses the oil question will be vitally important to his campaign and how he handles the ... Atlantic coast. According to a Larry West article at About.com, McCain is "in favor of reopening U.S. coastal waters to offshore oil drilling, claiming that offshore drilling will help American families by lowering gasoline and food prices" (West). McCain is interesting in that he doesn't believe that ... dr...

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... -cutting policies. He unsuccessfully ran for presidency in 2008, which positions him well for the upcoming election as the Republican Party has a history of nominating candidates who have previously lost. Earlier, Christie turned down the chance to represent the Republican Party because he wasn't "arrogant enough", but ... strategist in Perry's campaign. "The scrutiny that will come on his ideological and fiscal policies and social policies will be magnified greatly because of the short time period" (Hunt). Currently, Christie faces obstacles other than his political viewpoints. One of hi...

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... U.S. Sentencing Commission's decision to retroactively apply the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced prison terms for inmates convicted of crack-cocaine offenses. On a unanimous vote, "unfairly long sentences" for crack offenders, who are mostly African Americans, were reduced to be more compatible with sentences given to powder-cocaine offenders, who are often white ... sentences given to crack-related crimes such as possession and trafficking. Many people believed the law was racially discriminatory because crack users are typically poor and living in a black neighborhood. On June 30t...

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... terms and larger fines. Furthermore, government officials who are found protecting food safety violators or accepting bribes from them will also be handed harsher punishments (Jiang). Pei Xianding, Judge of Supreme People's Court said, "Under the new Criminal Law, anyone involved in food safety crimes will face at least term imprisonment. The new amendment also lifts the cap for ... social reactions. Our task to maintain food safety remains challenging," said Wang Shengjun, the country's top judge (Jiang). Before this surge in cases, government had cracked down on food safety violations,...

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... this month. In fact, Rebekah Brooks, The News of the World editor, provided Payne with the phone that was later hacked, under the guise that the phone could help her with her campaign for the law. Payne was later informed that her name appeared on Glen Mulcaire's list, the private investigator hired by The News of the World. The list contained about 4,000 people ... rumored to be targets of the tabloid's phone scandal (Somaiya). "The last edition of The News of the World made great play of the paper's relationship with the Payne family," said Tom Watson, a parliament member ... , allowi...

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As companies start to recover from the economic recession, President Obama promised to make government an ally. "We can, and we must, work together," he told the US Chamber of Commerce. "Whatever differences we may have, I know that all of us share a deep, abiding belief in this country, a belief in our people, a belief in the principles that have made America's economy the envy ... if I had brought over a fruitcake when I first moved in. But I'm going to make up for it." The two groups got off on a bad start after the Chamber spent tens of millions of dollars fighting Obama's health-care bil...

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... and where further studies are needed. There is critical data that is lacking in the reviewed material, Bialystok believes and by looking at the data available, she suggests that since Canada is a very rich, culturally diverse country with a number of studies already being done on language acquisition as it relates to bilingualism, it is the ideal setting in which to do further research ... for more, much needed study concentration is dependent on bilingualism as the most integral part of research. Language acquisition or production is the independent variable and is expected to be a part...

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... the relationship between two people and providing them with some legal and economic security. Another argument against the issue stems from the belief that the primary, if not only, purpose of marriage is procreation. Since procreation is obviously not possible between a same-sex couple, they argue, these couples should not be allowed to marry. They even take the argument further and ... say that a homosexual couple's home is no place to raise children, even if the couple were to adopt. On the flipside, proponents cite studies that have shown that there are no fundamental differences be...

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... , that's pretty clear. Any nuclear facility built by Israel's declared enemies -- and by that I don't mean countries in the Persian Gulf -- is cause for concern," said Joshua Teitelbaum, Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University (Kalman). This battle of the accusations has also shed light on Israel's censorship laws, which give the military censor ... great power in preventing the publication of material that could ... harm state security. Many of Israel's reporters can testify to the fact that this centralized control has failed ...

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... symbolic interactionism is becoming more helpful in an increasingly globalized world to demonstrate the ideas of different cultures in what is considered indigenous or Westernized and whether or not these totems of culture are acceptable or a part of a new type of Imperialism. Social constructionism, though, is by far the best lens to view and dialectically deconstruct destructive ideas that further inequality and ... but the reality is many corporations will move on to obtain the most money available elsewhere in terms of incentives or lower-wages in other countries. GM, in particular i...

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MF Global caused a fit of panic on October 31st after federal regulators discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customers' money was missing from the company's vaults. In a last ditch effort to redeem themselves, MF Global, headed by Jon S. Corzine, the former New Jersey governor, attempted to seek an agreement to sell a majority share of the company to a rival brokerage firm. Unfortunately for the ... . As a former executive at Goldman Sachs, Corzine utilized his previous experience of increasing the worth of a company through investments by immediately launching into a bold campa...

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... up for a gay American solider who was booed at a Republican debate. At the debate, which saw a turnout of 3,200 supporters, Obama began by applauding his administration for the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Additionally, Obama urged Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which was passed in 1996 and states that marriage should be between a man and a woman and ... explaining that he was forced to hide who he really was when signing up for the military (Kerley). Hill was booed by the audience (MSNBC). "You want to be commander in chief? You can start by...

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... percent, while black households' wealth declined by 53 percent. However, the wealth of white households only fell by 16 percent during that time (Eichler). In other terms, median wealth - assets minus debts - greatly differed for the three ethnic groups. Black households had $5,677 in wealth on average, Hispanic households had $6,325, and white households average $113,149 in wealth. Furthermore, unemployment rates ... because they were more exposed to the bubble simply because of the geography, partly because they actually followed the housing bubble for construction jobs," he said. "Whe...

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... army typically fires at citizens who attempt to film any of the action. Undeterred, the general public is still taking to the streets to protest the government. Frustrated by the fact that their actions have not made any impact on the protests, the Syrian government has become even more ... violent in order to get their way. Joshua Landis, a Syria specialist associated with the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, said ... al-Assad's regime "has been very frightened by Ramadan's onset." ... The Foreign Ministry agreed, "The operations will not only make no contr...

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... to Gaza this week with hundreds of activists in tow to help break the Israeli embargo on the Palestinian territory. Israel officials are threatening any foreign journalists who embark on the journey, saying they will be banned from entering Israel for the next decade and their equipment will be impounded. The warning came from a letter signed by the Government Press Office, saying the ... international media and raises serious questions about Israel's commitment to freedom of the press" (Weiss). The flotilla participants are largely unaffected by the warning, however. In fact, instead of ...

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... other cultures as being downright psychotic, but the fact remains that the importance of being on time is an enormously important part of the American value system and it would be reasonable to suggest that this will not change anytime soon. Therefore, it is also reasonable to suggest that young people learn as soon as possible in their lives that others expect them to ... be on time for a variety of reasons, which are discussed further below, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion. Review and Discussion Most Americans are busy people and a great number ... , together w...

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