Americans typically spend $70 billion more in December than in the average of November and January (the months around December). In a recent National Science Foundation-sponsored interview, Joel Waldfogel, the Carlson School's Frederick R. Kappel Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota uses that increase to measure the amount of holiday gift-giving. This […]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2011 – Emphasizing that bullying and hazing undermine everything the military stands for, the top U.S. military officer said every member of the armed forces has a personal responsibility to uphold its “zero tolerance†standard and intervene to stop any occurrences.
BOSTON – A Springfield, Mass., man was sentenced to prison yesterday in federal court for civil rights charges stemming from the arson of a predominantly African-American church in retaliation for the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States, announced the Department of Justice. Michael Jacques, 27, was sentenced in […]
FORT MEADE, Md., Dec. 22, 2011 – The prosecution and defense rested yesterday after delivering their closing statements in the Article 32 hearing of a soldier charged with leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents.