7 Jan 2009 at 2:24pm The House passed today two important bills that reverse some bad residue from Presidents Bush and Clinton: The first would reverse a 2001 Bush executive order (13233) that extended a broad shield over presidential and some vice presidential records ...
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4 Jan 2009 at 11:25pm When film executive Jack Warner started a record label in March of 1958, he did it mainly because of an embarrassing situation that had occurred the previous year. His contract actor Tab Hunter had cut a No. 1 single ?Young Love? for Dot Records ...
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4 Jan 2009 at 5:56pm Transportation Security Administration officials and JetBlue Airways are paying $240,000 to settle (.pdf) a discrimination lawsuit against a District of Columbia man who, as a condition of boarding a domestic flight, was forced to cover his shirt ...
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2 Jan 2009 at 5:48am Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf at Tate Modern for the opening of Frank's show in 2004. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe On 25 January, it will be 170 years since photography was invented. Considering its influence, that doesn't seem like a very long ...
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1 Jan 2009 at 8:48am Real estate plummeted, banks crashed and unemployment soared, but as the Bay Area watched house prices, credit ratings and job security go down the drain, at least one thing went right: 2008 was a Public Transit Party. People hopped the bus, jumped ...
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1 Jan 2009 at 8:27am
![]() Transit blunders and bouquets of 2008
Contra Costa Times, CA - Jan 1, 2009
Though the rate slowed in the fall, average weekday ridership on BART grew all year, hitting 370502 passengers in Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco and ... |
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1 Jan 2009 at 7:58am As we put the last 365 days in perspective, it?s a good time to remember the best films of 2008. These top ten movies are worth a view and can be recommended to friends, family and strangers whether they see them in theaters or eventually on DVD ...
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