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Shoemaker-Davis knows four of the people accused in the prisoner-abuse scandal, plus the whistle-blower, Joseph Darby. And, like other friends and acquaintances, she has trouble squaring the folks she knows with what she sees in the photos. "I think they were doing what they were told, but that doesn't excuse it," she says. "The people I knew would have said, 'No. Kiss my butt...
VIEWPOINT: Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley offers an FBI remedy...
...canned ham) thrown from rooftops, the festering bitterness of precinct-house feuds, the bizarro underworld of the midnight shift, the agony, both Dantean and Sisyphean, of sifting through the rubble of the World Trade Center that has been moved to Staten Island. Conlon has no ambitions as a whistle-blower or a hero--he's neither a Serpico nor a Supercop--and that keeps Blue Blood free of distortion and full of perspective. The result is a document with a testimonial force equal to that of Michael Herr's Dispatches...
...Rueter isn't joking about possibly moving to New Zealand. And if he does go, it won't be the frenzy or the expense of living in the U.S. that drives him away. It will be the leaf blowers. Americans now own more than 90 million of the infernal things, he says, each of them making the job of lawn clearing much easier--and much, much louder. Rueter, a onetime political-science professor at UCLA who is head of the advocacy group Noise Free America, already fled Los Angeles to get away from the leaf-blower blight, only to move...
...stay out of politics as much as possible,” said resident Dana T. Church, who was outside fixing his neighbor’s snow blower when Jessica R. Rosenfeld ’07 approached him with literature...