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Florida, Utah, Maine, Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii have passed laws restricting the rights of local authorities to stop residents using clotheslines. Another five states are considering similar measures, said Lee, 35, a former lawyer who quit to run the non-profit group ( Read more... )

The show isn't paying the team any money directly. Instead, Colbert is calling on his fans to donate to the team via colbertnation.com and usspeedskating.org. In the past, Colbert has had a great deal of success raising money this way. He has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Yellow Ribbon Fund, a charity that assists injured service ( Read more... )

Once again, this proves that the US legal system has such long, long arms....for the good or for the bad...
I hope they free the guy, though. Swiss are in the middle of the scandal. Unthinkable...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_en_mo/eu_switzerland_polanski
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Recently, Oxford was holding an election of a professor in poetry. There were 2 main candidates - a Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and some Ruth Padel, the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Walcott was going to win, but then Ruth Padel informed the media of the prior allegations of sexual harassment against Walcott (he is in the late ( Read more... )

I have recently figured out how to syndicate and add various valuable RSS feeds to LJ's reading list.  Now I don't have to worry that I am missing something important. :)  Posting here in case anyone else needs this.

http://www.livejournal.com/syn/