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...North Florida boot camp, alleging not just abuse but a cover-up that is proving a major embarassment for Florida Governor Jeb Bush in his last year in office. Thursday evening, Bush's Department of Law Enforcement Secretary, Guy Tunnell, who established the boot camp during his tenure as Bay County Sheriff, abruptly resigned...
...Medaris said. “We knew it was going to be an incredibly hard and very fast race.”And for the first 800 meters, Harvard held its own. The Crimson maintained the three-seat advantage throughout the first half of the race, keeping Princeton at bay as both boats approached the Mass. Ave. bridge at the halfway point.“We really worked on aggression during the week—just really going after it,” Henderson said. “I think the race was a success from that perspective. We took...
...hour of closing is nigh. Johnson does not look up—she has heard the recorded message so many times it has ceased to have any meaning. Johnson’s uncomprehending reply does not surprise Frank E. Oglesby, Deputy Director for Customer Service for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). “People are dismissive of a computer-generated voice,” he says. “A human voice is much more reassuring.” Oglesby should know—it is his own silky baritone, after all, that calls out the stops...
...were nominated by regional groups and often rubber-stamped by the U.N. Economic and Social Council. Moreover, it is presumptuous for the U.S. to attempt to take the moral high ground in a matter for which it has been rapidly losing credibility. The atrocities of Abu-Grahib and Guantanamo Bay preclude the U.S. from touting its own human rights standards as higher than those of others. A protest vote from a nation with such a questionable human rights record holds little sway, especially given its reputation for inflexibility and unilateralism in the U.N. Rather than stubbornly vote down the resolution...
...violence. In 2004, a teen was almost killed when his father learned his son was gay and invited a group to lynch the boy at his school. Months later, witnesses say, police egged on another mob that stabbed and stoned a gay man to death in Montego Bay. And this year a Kingston man, Nokia Cowan, drowned after a crowd shouting "batty boy" (a Jamaican epithet for homosexual) chased him off a pier. "Jamaica is the worst any of us has ever seen," says Rebecca Schleifer of the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch and author of a scathing report...