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Handicapped Man Faces Homelessness After Financial Crisis Demolishes Trust Fund

Huffington Post | Zach Dorfman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Mental Retardation, Traumatic Brain Injury, Bureaucracy, Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Health Care, Business News

As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...

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Wasted or Wasteful? Are Bureaucrats All That Bad?

Harry Moroz | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stimulus, Hud, Progressives, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, Bureaucracy, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Obama and Biden promise they will not spend our money badly. Government stimulus spending is presented by the administration as a necessary evil.

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About Things Swinish

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Bureaucracy, Pandemic, India, Globalisation, Swine Flu, World News
Pinaki Bhattacharya

The mass paranoia the news television channels were able to create in urban India was symptomatic of the modern wired 21st century age.

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The Skip Gates Arrest May Not Have Been About Race -- But About Something Even Worse

William Easterly | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bureaucracy, Civil Liberties, Democracy, Henry Louis Gates, African Americans, Civil Rights, Politics News
William Easterly

My guess is that Sergeant James Crowley was following an inflexible rule that you arrest anyone who shouts angrily at a cop.

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Blowing Smoke

James M. Lynch | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Positive Thinking, Meetings, Misspeaking, Positive Attitude, Bureaucracy, Positive Outlook, Pollution, But, Management, Living News
James M. Lynch

"But" is a word I could just as well do without. It stops more projects before they even hit the planning stage than it creates.

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John Murtha and the Culture of Corruption

Eyck Freymann | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Bureaucracy, Murtha, Eyck Freymann, Lobbyists, John Murtha, Politics News
Eyck Freymann

Murtha is a crook, and if the House Democrats were serious about fighting corruption, they would have expelled him from the caucus when the first definitive corruption stories broke.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: February 20, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bureaucracy, Federal Government, New York Post Monkey Cartoon, Ricky Gervais, Haley Barbour, Hugh Jackman, Bobby Jindal, Chimpanzee Attack, Mark Sanford, Sarah Palin, Economic Stimulus, Monkey, Worcester's Buttonquail, Academy Awards, Politics News

If you've spent any time in the Federal bureaucracy - or just a half-hour in the basement of the General Services Administration building - you know: ...

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Captive Flower

H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Detainees, Feelings, Law, Red-Tape, Emotions, Lawyers, Emotion, College, Nature, University of Wisconsin, Bureaucracy, Flowers, Red Tape, Bullshit, Living News
H. Candace Gorman

My client, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi, told me during one of our first visits about a flower that was outside his cage at Guantanamo, just sticking out of the desert terrain, by itself.

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Urban and Married Life, With Tickets

Steve Ettlinger | Posted 01.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Bureaucracy, Recycling, Marriage, Relationships, New York City, Violation, City Sanitation, City Buraeucracy, Department of Sanitation, Tickets, Court Summons, Recycling Rules, Living News
Steve Ettlinger

Here, for posterity, is our story of a recent confrontation with the city bureaucracy. TO: New York City Department of Santitation RE: Summons No...

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Japanese Pension Scandal Linked To Series Of Knife Attacks

Washington Post | Blaine Harden and Akiko Yamamoto | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Bureaucracy, Pensions, Japan Stabbings, Japan, Business News

TOKYO, Nov. 19 -- Bureaucrats here have infuriated the Japanese public by losing millions of government pension records. This week someone with a knif...

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I Got The Boot

Leslie Goldman | Posted 09.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Police Caught, Boot, Car, Ticket, Chicago, Denver, Bureaucracy, Cars, Parking Laws, Chicago News
Leslie Goldman

My trusty Mercury never got towed, as I parked within the dotted lines. I lived a life of smug bootlessness. Until last week.

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World Economic Hangover

John Feffer | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hangover, G8, Wto, Officious Language, World Trade Organization, Poor Writing, Writing, Bureaucracy, Politics News
John Feffer

My hands tremble when I open a document from the World Trade Organization. The language is either boring, technical, or obscure. But when I figure out what the documents are saying, I feel even worse.

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