Today’s installment in people being booted off pubic transportation, this one involving saggy pants and the classic line, “My pants are up, sir.” A 20-year-old University of New Mexico football player got thrown off a US Airways flight because the airline says he refused to pull up his pants, reports…
Continue reading …Want a pool in your living room—but can’t bear to leave the Big Apple? You’re in luck: Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood is home to a townhouse with a 15- by 30-foot pool inside. It was listed earlier this year for $11 million. “This is definitely a trophy, bragging-rights property,” says…
Continue reading …John McCain does not like what he’s hearing from the Republican candidates about getting out of Afghanistan and Libya. “This is isolationism,” he tells Christiane Amanpour in an interview taped for tomorrow’s This Week . (Politico’s Mike Allen provides excerpts at his Playbook .) “There’s always been an … isolation strain…
Continue reading …Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, and Jon Huntsman had a pretty good day on the campaign trail: Paul easily won the straw poll at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, reports CBS . It’s not a huge surprise: Paul (612 votes) typically does well in such venues because of his mobile…
Continue reading …The economic downturn has left an ever-growing group of law school graduates with one question: Where is the fancy, high-paying job to go with my pricey degree? As companies in virtually every industry look to cut costs, the legal community is far from immune, reports the Wall Street Journal . Businesses…
Continue reading …Treasure-hunter Bill Warren has caused a stir with his plan to find Osama bin Laden’s remains in the Arabian Sea. But as Brian Palmer explains in Slate , Warren has almost no shot of succeeding. For one thing, he is trying to find treasure without a map. Unless he’s got an…
Continue reading …Catholic University’s president believes he has come up with a surefire way to curb binge drinking and promiscuity: Do away with the school’s 11 coed dorms. “We just thought it was a more wholesome environment,” says John Garvey, whose plan will be phased in over several years at the…
Continue reading …The next GOP debate might be a little testier: A rift has opened between Mitt Romney and the rest of the field over abortion, reports CNN . Romney refused to sign an anti-abortion pledge from the Susan B. Anthony List, unlike Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, and Rick…
Continue reading …Looking for a summer read that’s a little weightier than the norm? Check out the Guardian ’s list of the 100 greatest non-fiction books. Some samples: Art : The Shock of the New , by Robert Hughes, traces the story of modern art. Biography : Robert Graves talks, of course, about his childhood…
Continue reading …NFL owners and players can’t seem to figure a way of their legal fight , raising the very real possibility that we’ll have no season this year. This goes way beyond sports, writes former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter in the New York Times . It would be a devastating economic hit to…
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