Word: accountants
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...period of their formal terminations, expunged their records of all disciplinary action, and restored their past salaries and their eligibility for law-enforcement pensions. It did, however, strip them of their official status as federal investigators empowered to carry guns and enforce federal law. Magaw says he took into account the men's long years of service and his opinion that their performance was partly ATF's fault for training them poorly in the first place. Despite ATF's concessions, the settlement is punishment enough, he says...
...Many Israelis, the Holocaust fresh in their memory, believe that that Horror gives them the right to inflict horror on others," he wrote. "Winternitz's account of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret police, is eerily similar to the stories of the Nazi Gestapo, the Geheimstaatspolitzei in Nazi-occupied territories in World War II--arbitrary arrests in the middle of the night, imprisonment without trial, beatings, refined tortures, murder, punishment of the families of suspects...
Militant Kashmiri separatists claim two of five hostages they're holding were wounded in crossfire during a gun fight with Indian forces, though who was injured and how badly was not mentioned in the rebel statement. A New Delhi official, Ramamohan Rao, called the account "baseless." At least 12 search parties of federal agents, police and nomads have been combing northern India for two Britons, a German, a Norwegian, and an American since they were kidnapped on July 4. As worsening weather raised fears for the hostages' health, the separatist Al-Faran group reissued its threat to kill the hostages...
...McGinniss began dreaming up things that Senator Edward M. Kennedy might have thought, in "The Last Brother" (1993), has there been such an elastic and accommodating definition of nonfiction as shown in Lorenzo Carcaterra's new book (Ballantine; 404 pages; $23). The story purports to be a true account of how a young Lorenzo, along with three childhood friends from New York's Hell's Kitchen, were sent to an upstate New York correctional facility, where they were repeatedly raped, beaten and tortured by four sadistic guards. Or were they? Lorenzo swears his account is true, but admits that nearly...
...than 90 percent of Massachusetts legal services cases last year dealt with direct client representation in matters such as child custody and landlord-tenant disputes), they neglect direct confrontation with Republicans on the issues at hard. Poverty advocates should be proud of their role in calling the state to account when it fails in its commitments to the disadvantaged. As Justice Scalia's recent article "The Rule of Law as a Law of Rules" demonstrated, most of the reactionaries currently on the Supreme Court have given up on judicial restraint as a doctrine to confining to permit reversals of Warren...