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It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets SuedFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 1:46AMBack in the 1920s, when vaudeville ruled the entertainment scene, each troupe registered their act with the administrative office. If an act accused another act of joke stealing, the parties would go back to the main office, check the records and see who performed the piece first.  

Black Chicago firefighters losing groundThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 10:33PMMark Townsend joined the Chicago Fire Department in 1988 hoping to help pave the way for future black firefighters in an agency long plagued by charges of racism. But as Townsend nears retirement, he faces a troubling fact: Despite years of diversity training and a highly publicized minority recruitment campaign, the percentage of African-Americans in the department is shrinking. Chicago ranks ...

Former Bowie High School principal diesThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 4:51AMJohn Hagan, a former principal at Bowie High School, died Sunday after suffering a lengthy illness, according to family friend Mary Nusser. "He was very strict, but very fair and very consistent," said Nusser, a former Bowie High student who has volunteered at the school since 1993.

Former Bowie High principal diesThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 4:42AMJohn Hagan, a former principal at Bowie High School, died Sunday after suffering a lengthy illness, according to family friend Mary Nusser. "He was very strict, but very fair and very consistent," said Nusser, a former Bowie High student who has volunteered at the school since 1993.

Rove on Rove: A Conversation With the Former Bush Senior AdviserThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 1:26AMKarl Rove, the former senior adviser and deputy White House chief of staff under President George W. Bush, on Tuesday published a memoir, "Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight." The Times caught up with him in New York to talk about democracy in Iraq, the impact of the C.I.A. leak case and questions about his mother's suicide and his father's sexual orientation. This ...

GeckoSystems' Elder Care Robot Trials Result in More Japanese InterestWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 11:09PMCONYERS, GA--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. ( PINKSHEETS : GCKO ) ( http://www.geckosystems.com/ ) -- announced today that their Japanese representative, Hajime Yasumatsu, has reported recently regarding his initiatives for GeckoSystems with another Japanese firm, in concert with Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications ...

Congressional pranks: Eric Massa wasn't only one rolling with laughter on HillWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 11:00PMTo hear Eric Massa tell it, the latest scandal to cost a congressperson his job turns on the following question: Can't a boss engage in a little friendly tickling with his co-workers now and again?

How Goldman Sachs Can Help the Little GuyWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 4:41PMWhen people willingly leave their jobs at Goldman Sachs , the once venerated, now often vilified investment bank, it is usually to go run something big in financial services — like, say, the United States Treasury , Peter Carbonara writes in The New York Times.

The Man Behind the GeniusWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:04PMby Will Ferguson The genius of Albert Einstein—from the theory of relativity to his work unraveling profound mysteries of the universe—is well-known. However, many people know little about the man behind the genius. For more than 30 years, actor Ed Metzger has depicted the eccentric Einstein. He creates a stirring portrait of the 20th-century intellectual who was known, on occasion, to ask ...