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...confessed in a graphic letter to a friend that he had killed her. In his first audiotaped confession, given after just 20 minutes of questioning, Ballard described the rape with previously undisclosed details from the crime scene and said he had acted alone. Ballard changed his story at the behest of the detectives, the petition says, claiming he had perpetrated the crime along with four other men. In the petition, Ballard stands by his original claim that he had acted alone...
...been circuitous: it took awhile for her to realize that she “wasn’t cut out to do much else besides write,” according to Chang.As an undergraduate at Yale, Chang majored in East Asian Studies. She first considered dermatology, at the behest of her parents who wanted her to pursue a “serious profession,” but she says she “[could not] even get herself interested in basic-level chemistry.” After Yale she mulled over law school and then enrolled at the Kennedy School...
...sought the uranium ore for its nuclear weapons program, as Cheney's office had suggested. And although Wilson reported his findings to the CIA, the claim about the African yellowcake kept popping up in Administration speeches in the weeks leading up to the war in Iraq. At Libby's behest, Grossman ordered the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) to look into the CIA mission to Africa...
...most voracious consumers. (Do you sense a metaphor rising?) It was Jacobs who made the connection between Mr. Bigmouth and Mr. and Mrs. Shopper in launching the FLW Tour 10 years ago. Those insights hooked Wal-Mart, which became the tour's lead sponsor in 1997 at the behest of an executive and bass angler named Lee Scott, who is now the company...
...drastic measures as delaying the Medicare prescription drug program for one year. The White House points to cuts Congress didn't make that Bush proposed back in February, including eliminating or streamlining 150 non-security programs like exchanges with historic whaling and trading partners, which was restored at the behest of the Senate. A House leadership aide said the plan is to make spending cuts down the road, but probably not to do anything dramatic this month. "We're preparing our microscopes," the aide said...