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For the second time in as many years, a man has crashed his vehicle into the downtown Wausau Burger King. Rouland Steppert, 80, crashed his Lincoln Aviator at about 3 p.m. Wednesday into the restaurant at 300 N. Sixth St. Damn you kids! Get that Burger King out of my way!
A restaurant patron sitting several feet from the impact said she witnessed the crash. "The old guy just pulled up in his SUV and all of a sudden he hit the handicapped sign first and then right up into the building and just crashed," said Jennifer Sparks of Wausau. Dammit! When did they move the drive thru!
Steppert was not injured. A man inside the restaurant sitting near Sparks was, although he was not struck. "His arm was starting to hurt after the crash," Sparks said. The man was transported to the hospital after an apparent seizure, Sparks said. Oh! My arm! It's broken!
Wausau Lt. Bill Kolb said police think the crash was caused by a medical condition.
Police Chief Jeff Hardel said Steppert crashed into the same Burger King on Oct. 15, 2005. In that incident, Steppert told police he mistakenly placed his foot on the accelerator of his car, ramming it into the doorway of the restaurant. Witnesses said Steppert then went in and ordered breakfast. No one was hurt in that crash, and the restaurant remained open.
ALLEN PARK -- The body of a 41-year-old man was found in a wooded area next to a guillotine he built and used to kill himself, police said. The man, from the Detroit suburb of Melvindale, was discovered Monday by workers from a shopping center near his home.
Allen Park Deputy Police Chief Dale Covert said the roughly six-foot tall guillotine was bolted to a tree and included a swing arm. Covert said police also found several store receipts detailing the materials used to assemble the device. "I can't even tell you how long it must have taken him to construct," he said. "This man obviously was very determined to end his life."
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HENRY FONDA in FORT APACHE > "I remember Kaaaydet ED DAMES" - iff I don't get it, its a given that Dames and US Army-DOD PYWAR-INTEL, etal. won't either.
Plate-glass broke and bargain-hunters were crushed as 5,000 shoppers stormed past helpless police into a new Berlin shopping mall early Wednesday.
Anti-greed demonstrators chanted condemnation of the crowd that had gathered outside the Alexa mall to await the midnight opening of the first shop, an electrical appliance retailer advertising thousands of specials.
The shoppers ignored the moral criticism and surged inside.
"Sod off, swampy!"
The front door shattered in the rush and people were knocked aside. Limping shoppers and injured staff were taken away by ambulance. Police, who said their 100 officers at the scene could not maintain safety, persuaded the shop to shut again after an hour of trading.
The dark-pink building with 180 shops faces Alexanderplatz, a wide Berlin square which used to be the home of the better shops in communist East Germany's ramshackle economy. The 290-million-euro (400-million-dollar) Alexa shopping centre is the 56th mall to open in Berlin, which promotes itself today as the "poor but sexy" city. Despite high local unemployment, more covered malls are planned.
The rest of the mall opened for business at 7 am, but Media Markt, a chain of 469 electrical-goods stores in 14 countries, had chosen a midnight opening for maximum public impact.
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Paging Scott Beauchamp! Paging Stephen Glass! Paging Jason Blair! Pick up the white courtesy phone please.
Plate-glass broke and bargain-hunters were crushedas 5,000 shoppers stormed past helpless police into a new Berlin shopping mall early Wednesday.
The front door shattered in the rush and people were knocked aside. Limping shoppers and injured staff were taken away by ambulance.
The rest of the mall opened for business at 7 am, but Media Markt, a chain of 469 electrical-goods stores in 14 countries, had chosen a midnight opening for maximum public impact.
Which they got. I wonder how much Media Market had to pay the guy for the Shattered Glass.
It's not all that long ago that East Germany had virtually no consumer goods and no money to buy them with. And that West Germany heavily controlled the hours during which shops could be open.
Yet another victory for the forces of relentless capitalsm harnessed by consumer demand.
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The shoppers ignored the moral criticism and surged inside...
No power on Earth can stop Women in the Flying Wedge Formation Descending upon Holy Mall Bargains.
For it is written in acient Sears cuneiform, "Let no Man or Beaste come between Them She-Shoppers and the Objects they Desire!!"
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This is why communism failed. People want stuff. People have always wanted stuff. People will always want stuff.
So outta the way anti-greedheads or get stampeded into the dust...
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Not only that, lotp. Germany has strict blue laws; few stores are allowed to be open on Sunday and open late at night. So, consumers have fewer choices. If they're getting away from that now, that's good.
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PJ O'Rourke: "Communism is the only system that could take Germans and turn them into paupers."
I can't believe the German gummint allowed the mall to be open a midnight. What happened to the 6pm (8 during Christmas) closing times? What's this world coming to?
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Didn't the Commies learn anything from AL Bundy and Monty Python movies > "Is it true what they say, God, are you a big fat woman?"; and NOTHING STOPS THE RABBIT!
Rival student group clashes left three students injured and work suspended at the University of Karachi Wednesday. There were reports that Culture Minister Rauf Siddiqui and Gulshan Town Nazim Wasay Jalil reached KU for Student Week with their security guards. Activists from one group reportedly rushed into the lobby and ransacked the arrangements and beat up students, including Mehwish of the IR Department, Musarrat Jabeen of Mathematics, Farooq Ahmed of Pharmacy, Kamran from Mathematics and Mazhar Ahmed from Zoology. A mob from one group appeared with iron rods and stones and a fight ensued.
Mehvish was reportedly rushed to Liaquat National Hospital. One group said that there had been a confrontation the day earlier but after negotiations matters were settled down.
KU Media Advisor Professor Inam Bari said it was a minor and that the rangers had handled the situation and dispersed the crowed. One student group claimed that unidentified armed men came to a tea shop near Baitul Mukarram Mosque and started aerial firing as a result of which Atique and Shafiq were shot and had to be taken to Liaquat National Hospital. The Mobina town police lodged FIR No. 240/07 on behalf of the injured Mehwish.
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From Reforming Pakistans Universties
By Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy
Take for example the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, reputed to be Pakistans best. Academic activities common in good universities around the world are noticeably absent. Seminars and colloquia, where faculty present for peer review the results of their on-going research, are few and far between. Public lectures, debates, or discussions of contemporary scientific, cultural, or political issues are almost non-existent.
The teaching at QAU is no better. Rote learning is common, students are not encouraged to ask questions in class, and courses are rarely completed by the end of the semester. This university has three mosques but no bookstore. It is becoming more like a madressah in other ways too.
Some campuses are run by gangs of hoodlums and harbour known criminals, while others have Rangers with machine guns on continuous patrol. On occasion, student wolf packs attack each other with sticks, stones, pistols, and automatic weapons. There are many campus murders. Most students have not learned how to think; they cannot speak or write any language well, rarely read newspapers, and cannot formulate a coherent argument or manage any significant creative expression.
The casual disregard for quality is most obvious in the HECs massive PhD production programme. This involves enrolling 1,000 students in Pakistani universities every year for PhD degrees. Thereby Pakistans "PhD deficit" (it produces less than 50 PhDs per annum at present) will supposedly be solved and it will soon be at par with India. In consequence, an army of largely incapable and ignorant students, armed with hefty HEC fellowships, has sallied forth to write PhD theses.
Although the HEC claims that it has checked the students through a "GRE type test" (the American graduate school admission test), a glance at the question papers reveals it to be only a shoddy literacy and numeric test. In my department, advertised as the best physics department in the country, the average PhD student now has trouble with high-school level physics and even with reading English. Nevertheless there are as many as 18 PhD students registered with one supervisor! In the QAU biology department, that number rises to 37 for one supervisor. HEC incentives have helped dilute PhD qualifying exams to the point where it is difficult for any student not to pass.
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Most students have not learned how to think; they cannot speak or write any language well, rarely read newspapers, and cannot formulate a coherent argument or manage any significant creative expression.
The rival Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza argued over mosque sermons and collection of donations during Ramadan, but agreed to start observance together on Thursday in a rare note of unity for the holiest period for Muslims.
Ramadan is a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayer in mosques and giving to the poor, and the start date depends on the sighting of a new moon by a country's top cleric. Libya and Nigeria began the fast Wednesday, but most other Muslim countries in the Middle East will do so Thursday. With some countries using astronomical calculations and others relying on the naked eye, starting times often differ. However, the ruling on when the fast begins can also have political or sectarian dimensions, as some countries or sects try to differentiate themselves from rivals by picking a different day.
For the Palestinians, Ramadan is marred this year by the split between the West Bank and Gaza. In June, the Islamic militant Hamas seized control of Gaza by force, prompting moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to set up a rival government in the West Bank. Abbas' information minister, Riad Malki, warned mosque preachers this week not to deliver inflammatory or political Ramadan sermons. Abbas' Fatah movement has accused Hamas of using mosques to incite against its political opponents. Preachers violating the instructions will be fired or sent into early retirement, Malki said.
In the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian security forces seized three assault rifles in a local mosque. The intelligence chief in Nablus, Abu Jihad Kmeil, accused Hamas of using mosques for illegal activity. Hamas denied the claim, saying the weapons were planted in the mosque by security officials.
In Gaza, senior cleric Saleh al-Reqeb said the directives from the West Bank were disrespectful to preachers and were meant to muzzle any criticism of Abbas' policies, including his attempt to revive peace talks with Israel.
The Fatah-controlled West Bank government also announced that it will ban fundraising during Ramadan without permission from the Religious Affairs Ministry. Jamal Bawatna, the religious-affairs minister in the West Bank, said this would prevent Arab charity from going to Hamas. The flow of local money in Gaza would be difficult to control, he said.
Bawatna said that Hamas had removed the last senior Abbas-allied official in the Religious Affairs Ministry in Gaza to ensure its control of all local donations in mosques.
With Gaza cut off from the world, Hamas is hard-pressed to provide for Gazans, especially during Ramadan, which is known for its festive mood, large family meals and social get-togethers after sundown.
Ismail Haniya of Hamas, the prime minister deposed by Abbas, told worshippers in a mosque near his house in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza that his government will prevail.
"Yes our money is little, and the siege is suffocating, and the crossings are closed and the policy of drying up our resources ... is unabating," he said. "But we will share what we have to remain dignified. No one will be able to break us for a few dollars." Haniya said he was able to pay $12 million in salaries for 16,000 employees who were no longer paid by Abbas because of their loyalty to Hamas.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Hamas security forces would not enforce the fast, but expected voluntary compliance. Palestinians have become increasingly devout in recent years of strife and hardship, and it is rare to see someone eating or drinking in public during the Ramadan fast, particularly in conservative Gaza.
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ALLEN PARK -- The body of a 41-year-old man was found in a wooded area next to a guillotine he built and used to kill himself, police said. The man, from the Detroit suburb of Melvindale, was discovered Monday by workers from a shopping center near his home.
Rival student group clashes left three students injured and work suspended at the University of Karachi Wednesday. There were reports that Culture Minister Rauf Siddiqui and Gulshan Town Nazim Wasay Jalil reached KU for Student Week with their security guards. Activists from one group reportedly rushed into the lobby and ransacked the arrangements and beat up students, including Mehwish of the IR Department, Musarrat Jabeen of Mathematics, Farooq Ahmed of Pharmacy, Kamran from Mathematics and Mazhar Ahmed from Zoology. A mob from one group appeared with iron rods and stones and a fight ensued.
The rival Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza argued over mosque sermons and collection of donations during Ramadan, but agreed to start observance together on Thursday in a rare note of unity for the holiest period for Muslims.
