| Historians Fear MLK’s Legacy Being Lost
Hillary Rodham Clinton came under fire when she was quoted as saying King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. King has "slipped into the realm of symbol that people use and manipulate for their own purposes," McNair said. Harris-Lacewell said that is something people need to push back against. "It's not OK to slip into flat memory of who Dr. King was, it does no justice to us and makes him to easy to appropriate," she said. "Every time he gets appropriated, we have to come out and say that's not OK. We do have the ability to speak back." © 2008 Associated Press .
Did Angelina Stand Up Jennifer Aniston?
Here the latest on the Us Weekly circuit. The mag is saying that Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston were set to meet at the Night Before party at the Beverly Hills Hotel Saturday night, but that Angie bowed at the last minute to "keep the power" over Jen. I happen to think this whole cover story is pretty ridiculous. I'm pretty sure Angelina is not sitting at home thinking about ways to torture Jennifer Aniston, and that Jen wasn't waiting with bated breath to see her nemesis. They are both professionals who, I'm sure, have had to either talk to or avoid people they don't particularly like, at one event or another. Like the rest of us. It's life. Do I think Jen is thrilled that Angie is pregnant, again, with Brad Pitt's baby? No. But do I think she cries herself to sleep every night over it? No.
ACH Fraud: Clearing House Aims To Clean House
Stepping up the pressure on third-party processors to police their ACH users, NACHA member institutions may decide later this summer on new network rules to strengthen fines or even ban originators with excessive unauthorized items. The new proposals would also require originators to maintain statistics on their return activity and rid themselves of problem firms (read: telemarketers) that blatantly violate NACHA rules with improper Web- or telephone-based authorizations-each helping to form the basis of a de facto originators blacklist. "Obviously, if you suspended a company from the ACH network, you would have to let all the banks in the country know about that," says Michael Herd, managing director of network rules for the ACH Network's governing body. Two years ago, a less-stringent proposal to automate fees against returned transactions failed to garner enough support from NACHA members.
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Pimp Out Your Air. Paint and Customize
Just finished writing about a too-good-to-be-true story and while this here image would have you thinking the same thing, I can assure you that this is not the case. You can indeed pimp out your MacBook Air to look like the one in the image to the left, or even better, but it's gonna cost you. Oh, it's gonna cost you a lot! About $500 in cash (no, actually I'm pretty sure you can pay .
Read condolences from others
Faith, family, friends, and memories. That is what will help you get through the days. The overwhelming feeling of helplessness will subside. I am a friend of one of the survivor's families; a mother who lost a 22 year old son, who also has a daughter who just graduated from USC Law; and lost my home to fire last year; I have felt your pain. It will get better. May God be with you. SH Lancaster JW, Lexington, SC
There are no words to express the pain that so many people are going thru right now. It is amazing how many people are affected by this tragedy in one way or another. USC is a large campus with a close nit feeling. Having graduated from there almost 15 years ago I feel as if I lost my brothers and sisters. Please know that the prayers of myself and so many others are with you.
World stocks routed on fears for economy
US stock markets were closed on Monday for a holiday, but US stock index futures were down sharply suggesting investors were not putting much hope on Wall Street leading a rebound when it returns to business.
Elsewhere, Toronto's stock market was down around 4.5 percent and Japan's benchmark Nikkei average earlier lost 3.86 percent to close at a two-year low.
"Risk aversion is widespread as the market thinks (the economic downturn) is not just a US centric story," said Paul Robson, currency strategist at RBS Global Banking.
Bear market?
Investors were carrying through from last week's concern that a fiscal stimulus proposed by President George W. Bush would not be enough to stop the U.S. economy from falling into recession and that the downturn will spread.
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