Republican Site Crashes

American Voices

October 15, 2009 | ISSUE 45•42

GOP.com, the new social networking site for Republicans, crashed hours after it was launched on Tuesday. What do you think?

No site structure can possibly withstand that many people typing in all caps."

Dave Nowak
Campus Activities Director
It works fine, you just have to remember to type in the suffix for their offshore domain in Bermuda."

Don Rose
Customs Inventory Team Lead
It's kind of a shame, since they'd gone to the trouble of sending everyone a letter telling them what comments they should post."

Ann Sliter
Financial Reporting Manager

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

05.25.12 |

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.