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Historical Hindsight
The trial deviated from the rule of law, to strengthen the rule of law
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Coupling
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Act II
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Consumer Intelligence
A startup guarantees it will buy you a ticket to your destination, regardless of cost or carrier, if a flight is canceled or delayed more than four hours or a connection is missed due to an airline's delay
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[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Michael Ramirez BONUS!
Marilyn Penn: Selective Sensitivity
Karen Feld : Blurry Lines: Disability vs. Ability
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1782, Treaty of Paris --- representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris)
• 1786, Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day
• 1803, in New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase
• 1804, the Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase
• 1872, the first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England
• 1902, second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor
• 1934, the steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph
• 1936, London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was destroyed in a fire
• 1939, start of the Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, launch the war
• 1943 , the Tehran Conference meets --- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code named Operation Overlord
• 1954, in Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.86 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock
• 1971, Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates
• 1972, during the Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000
• 1975, Israel pulled its forces out of a 93-mile-long corridor along the Gulf of Suez as part of an interim peace agreement with Egypt
• 1981, in Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17)
• 1988, the Soviet Union stopped jamming broadcasts of Radio Free Europe for the first time in 30 years
• 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law
• 1995, official end of Operation Desert Storm
• 1997, Czech Premier Vaclav Klaus formally handed in his government's resignation in the wake of a campaign financing scandal. In Tajikistan, French hostage Karine Mane was killed with five suspected kidnappers when a grenade exploded during a failed rescue operation; a companion had been released hours earlier
• 1998, Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world
• 2000, Shimon Peres quit Israel's Labor Party, his political home of six decades, to campaign for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new organization
• 2001, Robert Tools, the first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died in Louisville, Ky., of complications after severe abdominal bleeding; he had lived with the device for 151 days
• 2004, Ken Jennings' streak of 74 wins on the TV game show "Jeopardy!" came to an end
• 2005, the world's first partial-face transplant was conducted in France where a woman was given a new nose, lips and chin following a brutal dog bite
• 2006, President George W. Bush met in Jordan with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; Bush said the United States would speed a turnover of security responsibility to Iraqi forces but assured al-Maliki that Washington was not looking for "some kind of graceful exit" from Iraq.
• 2009, John Demjanjuk, of Ohio, went on trial in Munich, Germany, accused of helping to kill 27,900 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard. (On May 12, 2011, Demjanjuk at the age of 91 was convicted as an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews and sentenced to 5 years in prison. The judge suspended the remainder of the sentence, noting Demjanjuk had already served two years during trial, was 91 years old, and had served 8 years in Israel on related charges that were later overturned.)
ALSO: In Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest atom smasher, broke a world record for proton acceleration.
AND: In a pair of lethal attacks on lawmen, four Seattle police officers were shot to death at a coffee shop by a gunman who was himself slain by police two days later, while in Afghanistan, a policeman gunned down six fellow officers at a checkpoint before he was killed
• 2010, the Obama administration announced that all 197 airlines that fly to the U.S. had begun collecting names, genders and birth dates of passengers so the government could check them against terror watch lists before they boarded flights
• 2012, demonstrations erupted in Cairo soon after lawmakers passed a Constitutional Declaration that gave President Mohamed Morsi near-absolute power. (Morsi would be ousted by the military seven months later.)
William Kristol: Liberal Sanctimony
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Least Competent Criminals | Doing Time Right
Argus Hamilton: The News in Zingers
The Village Idiot by Jim Mullen: Words fail me
Robert J. Samuelson: Generational warfare, anyone?
Christian Davenport: Are Musk, Bezos and Branson the Wright brothers of today? Some in Congre$$ think
Kevin Cirilli & Ben Brody: Karl Rove opens his Rolodex for Ben Carson
Kathleen Parker: The nastier Donald Trump gets, the more some people like him
(THOUGHT PROVOKING) Marc Fisher: The GOP's identity-politics crisis: A diverse field but an aversion to tout it
Dan Balz: For Dems, it's not just 'demographics as destiny'
Lib columnist Dana Milbank: The problem with Obamacare's mental-health 'parity' measure
Debra J. Saunders: Last Call for Ethanol
Jonathan Bernstein: Republican Party isn't sold on Marco Rubio
Bruce Bialosky: Respecting Yourself Before the Environment
Stuart Rothenberg: Don't get too caught up in the Trump, Carson 'panic'
George Will: Battling the modern American administrative state
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