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Seeks damages for distribution of humiliating gun accident video: APRIL 11--A Drug Enforcement Administration agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him shooting himself in the foot during a weapons demonstration for Florida children is suing over the tape's release, claiming that his career has been crippled and he's become a laughingstock due to the embarrassing clip's distribution. Lee Paige, 45, blames the video's release on DEA officials in an April 7 federal lawsuit filed against the U.S. government. A copy of the pro se complaint by Paige, a DEA agent since 1990, can be found below....

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Meet Nick Naylor, the new sultan of spin. Pimp, bloodsucker, Washington D.C. Lobbyist. The anti-hero of this satire (Eckhart) will have you cheering for disenfranchised corporate conglomerates. If you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

During the 1980s, the French government quietly permitted immigrant men to bring multiple wives into the country, to the point where an estimated 200,000 families in Paris are now polygamous. Any suspicion that official concern over headscarves was motivated by an impulse toward gender equality is belied by the easy adoption of a permissive policy on polygamy, despite the burdens this practice imposes on women and the warnings issued by women from the relevant cultures.1 On this issue, no politically effective opposition galvanized. But once reporters finally got around to interviewing the wives, they discovered what the government could have...

We at the Toyota Motor Corporation are writing to address certain misconceptions that have arisen about your Toyota Prius model, which we are proud to note is driven by many celebrities, including Prince Charles and HBO's Larry David. Our pioneering gasoline-electric hybrid, introduced in 1999, has become an object of adoration to the world's enlightened car buyers. Our competitors, including America's Big Three, are rushing out hybrid vehicles of their own..

Detainees Responsible for Terror Attacks Get Bare Minimum to Ensure They Stay Alive - Nov. 24, 2005 — A can of Ensure is the highlight of Thanksgiving for the dozen or so top al Qaeda terrorists in the CIA's secret overseas prisons. Besides the repetitive playing of rap music, they have been made to talk by harsh treatment that includes water boarding, in which water is poured over the face to make them think they are drowning. "The person believes they are being killed, and as such it really amounts to a mock execution," said John Sifton, the Afghanistan researcher...

Orange County School Superintendent Ron Blocker announced Wednesday that the school district is running out of gas, according to a Local 6 News report. The pipelines out of New Orleans that supply the district with diesel fuel have no power and the suppliers have canceled the shipments. So, the school district estimates it has enough gas to bus students to and from school through Friday, Local 6 News reported. If another shipment of fuel does not come before Friday buses will not be able to run. "Parents, as early as next week, will have to drive their children to school,"...

Student Banned from Decrying Animal Cruelty in Public AreaORLANDO, Fla., June 15, 2005—Florida’s Seminole Community College (SCC) has forbidden student Eliana Campos to distribute literature protesting slaughterhouse brutality at a table in the public area of the campus’s café. An administrator at the Oviedo campus refused to honor Campos’ constitutional rights because the source of the literature (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA) “instill[ed] a feeling” in her that she did not like. SCC’s decision comes despite allowing other groups to set up tables exactly where Campos wanted to do so. When Campos protested this differential treatment,...

As virus writers release multiple variants of Mytob in a bid to create a super worm, experts say vigilant security measures should block any master menace. The creators of Mytob tweak the code within the worm in a similar way to developers trying to perfect new software, and have released hundreds of variants of the mass-mailing worm. "We have not seen this before. Virus writers are hammering out variants every day, testing the virus, tweaking it and seeing how many people are hit and which elements of the malicious code are the most successful," said Carole Theriault, security consultant for...

LEXINGTON, Va., April 15, 2005 ­ Marine Capt. James C. Edge, a 1996 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, was killed in action in Al-Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday. Details on the circumstances of his death were not immediately available. A native of Virginia Beach, Va., Capt. Edge, 31, earned a bachelor's degree in international studies while at VMI. In addition, he was, a cadre corporal as a 3rd Classman; a sergeant as a 2nd Classman; and executive officer of Alpha Company as a 1st Classman. He was also a member of the Rat Disciplinary Committee. Funeral arrangements are not available at this...

Virginia Military Institute officials are investigating a 2004 barracks Halloween observance during which cadets dressed as Nazi soldiers, drag queens and a starving African. Officials at the Lexington college were alerted to the behavior when someone referred them to an Internet message board on which four photographs of the costumed men are posted. "We've been made aware of the possible involvement of a small number of VMI cadets in various insensitive and inappropriate photographic poses appearing on a Web site unaffiliated with VMI," spokesman Stewart MacInnis said. "VMI does not condone such behavior and this matter is being investigated accordingly....

LEXINGTON, Va., Dec. 20, 2004 -- For the twelfth time, the Corps of Cadets of Virginia Military Institute will march in a Presidential inaugural parade, said VMI Superintendent Gen. J. H. Binford Peay III. "It is a high honor for VMI to participate in President Bush's inauguration," Peay said. "For these cadets, it will be an exciting and proud day in their time at VMI, and I expect it will be something they will look back on from a historic perspective with fondness and memories." Peay said VMI was notified over the weekend that the entire 1,300-member Corps of Cadets...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- An Orange County man was arrested Wednesday on charges of possessing child pornography. Thomas Allen Bispo confessed to looking at the porn on his work laptop. Orange County detectives think Bispo was probably away on business when he was looking at child porn on a laptop. But he was using his company-issued computer and he thought he had deleted the porn. Deputies arrested 61-year-old Thomas Allen Bispo after finding 27 pornographic images of young children on his laptop. Detectives were actually tipped off. Bispo worked at Sypris, Inc., an engineering testing firm in Orange County. He...

The Superintendent regrets to inform the VMI Family of the death of Army Major Paul R. Syverson III, VMI Class of '93. Major Syverson was killed in action on June 16, 2004 near Camp Anaconda in Iraq. Survivors include his parents; wife, Jackie; seven-year-old son, Paul; and his two-month-old daughter, Amy Elizabeth. Major Syverson grew up in Arlington Heights, Ill., and graduated from John Hershey High School in 1989. After graduating from VMI, he was assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group, based at Fort Campbell, Ky. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for his role in...

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The Superintendent regrets to inform the VMI community of the combat death of Specialist Ryan E. Doltz, VMI Class of 2000, on June 5, 2004, in Iraq. Specialist Doltz was mobilized with the New Jersey Army National Guard's 3rd Battalion, 112th Field Artillery, which deployed to Iraq in February. The unit was retrained to perform military police duties prior to its deployment. He died Saturday when an improvised explosive device was set off. Specialist Doltz was a native of Mine Hill, New Jersey. He matriculated with the Class of 2000, but graduated with the Class of 2002 with a Bachelor...

Feeling sad and having just heard the news that President Ronald Reagan had just passed this past Saturday June 5, 2004 at 5:00 PM I switched my car radio from my local news radio to my local NPR, PRI affiliate to get my fill of the left by listening to A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. I can normally make it through the live shows but this last show I had to turn off. The show began with ridicule and cheers from the audience when the Host (Mr. Garrison Keillor) announced that the former President had past away within...

Cadets at Virginia Military Institute and residents in the surrounding area will have a chance to see displays and demonstrations of military and homeland security equipment at VMI's annual Marshall Day activities April 16. The event is free and open to the public. As many as seven military helicopters, a variety of engineer equipment, artillery and infantry weapons, and other military displays from all branches services of the Armed Forces will be joined by law enforcement, emergency response, and health care units involved in homeland security response on VMI's Parade Ground. In addition, flyovers of F/A-18 fighter and B-1 bomber...

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