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...assistant, Sarah Neely, noticed small white specks falling onto her desk as she slit open the envelope, which had “Alan” scrawled on the flap and contained a blank thank-you card...
Prominent Russian human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov was killed Monday afternoon, shot point-blank in the head, police say, as he walked to his car just a mile from the Kremlin. Markelov, 34, had just given a press conference in which he had announced he would continue to fight the early parole of Yury Budanov, a decorated tank commander who had admitted to and was convicted of the strangling death of an 18-year-old Chechen woman in 2000. Anastasia Baburova, 25, a freelance journalist for Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper covering the Budanov case, was also shot as she walked...
...screaming from the pain that your trainer is causing, and your face, which can - if you draw it into a relaxed expression - inform your brain that it shouldn't be protesting so much. So next time you're working out and grimacing, push your facial muscles into submission. Look blank. You will find it's easier to get through one more...
...love to cut ribbons for new roads; repairs don't have the same bringing-home-the-bacon oomph. Most state transportation departments have become virtual asphalt factories, and most states have laws preventing the use of federal transportation dollars for anything but roads. Yet Congress keeps writing the states blank checks, lavishing the most cash on the ones that do the most driving and paving, actually mandating that federal officials "shall in no way infringe on the sovereign rights of the states to determine which projects shall be federally financed." It's our money, their choices. The result is that...
...said.Yale’s Billy Blasé responded to several Crimson attacks in the second half of the first period, including one deflection that shut down a slapshot from freshman Alex Killhorn at 15:19 in the first and another that stifled junior Alex Biega from point blank range. Yale’s defenders rushed Harvard’s offense enough to limit Harvard’s quality shots on goal in the first, though the Crimson would finish with 13 shots in the first period and 34 shots on the game. But Yale’s hustling...