Word: batons
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...them beat him with the baton, read him personal mail...
...Bastard” seemed a little cliché and some skinheads down in Baton Rouge already trademarked “Kike...
...elderly tour groups may be impressed by Emerson and Thoreau, but what Shelley and Leslie, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, really want to know is where Conan O’Brien ’86 lived. “We’re on the Conan O’Brien Freedom Trail,” they giggle. They are less impressed with the male eye candy, however. “Well, I saw one kind of hot guy,” says Shelley doubtfully. “But I think they’d be hotter at Northeastern...
...about to get its first Governor of full-fledged Indian--and we don't mean Native American--ancestry? In Louisiana's race for Governor, Republican Bobby Jindal, 32, born and raised in Baton Rouge by parents who emigrated from India, is in a surprising dead heat for first place with Democratic Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Blanco. Jindal already has a whiz kid's resume: state health secretary, executive director of the national commission on Medicare, president of the University of Louisiana system and a top health-policy adviser to the Bush Administration--all before the age of 30. He has wooed...
...called on the Irish authorities "to intensify their efforts to prevent ill-treatment by the police." The allegations contained in the CPT's report ranged from kicks and punches to severe beatings. Some detainees claimed they had been assaulted in a way that avoided leaving visible marks, including baton blows to a telephone directory placed against the head. "They may be using diplomatic language, but it is clear that the committee are not referring to a few bad apples - they are saying Ireland has a problem," says Aisling Reidy, director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. Reidy points...