GOOD DAY FOR:
Making 50 shades of bank
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Crushing your rage
A Minnesota business offers customers the chance to drive a tank over a car for a cool $1,000. [Discovery News]
Fighting City Hall
After a video showing dozens of people tripping over the same subway stair goes viral, the New York's MTA steps in to repair the problem. [The Daily Dot]
BAD DAY FOR:
Flouting business casual
A New Zealand reporter is kicked out of a murder trial for wearing gold sparkly pants that the judge deemed "distracting." [Business Insider]
Loners
A study of on- and off-line social networks finds that people with the most friends are typically the ones selected to assume leadership positions. [New Scientist]
Inexplicable overreactions
A woman sues a Chinese restaurant in Chicago after an employee allegedly throws her through a glass door for asking for more sauce packets. [Consumerist]
For more winners and losers see: Good day, bad day: June 28, 2012
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Why are election experts taking Trump’s midterm threats seriously?IN THE SPOTLIGHT As the president muses about polling place deployments and a centralized electoral system aimed at one-party control, lawmakers are taking this administration at its word
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