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The mortgage lending crisis “is the most serious problem that has faced this country since crack cocaine,” the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, told a group of about 60 residents of the Canarsie neighborhood Monday night.
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“A recent trip to Starbucks got me entered into a sweepstakes for $1000.00 USD. While perusing the sweepstakes rules, I came across are very amusing loophole in the rules that will make sure that any Canadian who wins must first pass a math test to claim their prize! “The line is under section 4, about 10 lines down. It reads:
” If a resident of Canada is selected as a winner, they will be required to correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a timed, mathematical skill-testing question, to be administered by Marden- Kane, Inc. either by mail, telephone, e-mail, or fax (at its sole discretion) before the awarding of the prize.
In the Senate, the Sergeant-at-Arms had a moment in the media spotlight in 1988, when then Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-WV) made a motion on the Senate floor that Senators absent from the floor be arrested and brought to the chamber. The absentees were deliberately stalling the consideration of campaign finance legislation by preventing a quorum from being achieved. By vote of the Senate, the Sgt.-at-Arms was handed arrest warrants and instructed to find and escort the absentees to the chamber. Senator Robert Packwood (R-OR) was the first “captured,” and forcibly brought to the floor by the Sgt.-at-Arms and several of his plainclothes men. Packwood’s presence registered a quorum; no other Senators had to be sought.
I thought my hotel neighbors were playing awesome music all night long; then I realized the sound was coming from the iPod in my jacket.
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