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...larger dealers and perhaps the root of the outbreak. While overseeing operations on Chicago's West Side and just southwest of the city, the man allegedly used children, including a teenage Russian girl, as runners because juvenile laws are more lax on those busted. "He's like a street boss. We've moved up a level with this arrest," said Limon...
...opposing political parties, but the two have a lot in common. Both faced calls for their resignation—for Summers, from professors; for Rumsfeld, from retired generals. And both blamed the tumult on small segments of those two constituencies. But Rumsfeld ultimately found greater support from his boss when President Bush said he was "exactly what is needed." Summers, by contrast, lost the backing of several members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s most powerful governing board...
...security branch, the Knights of God, to launch an offensive against terrorists outside the country's borders and eliminate al-Zarqawi. In addition to providing support to anti-Zarqawi tribes in Iraq, the Jordanians sought sources inside al-Qaeda who could lead them to the al-Qaeda boss. The official says that one informant, described as neither Jordanian nor Iraqi, made contact with three of al-Zarqawi's couriers, all of whom the Jordanians referred to as Mr. X. According to the official, the informant reported spotting one Mr. X in an area outside Baqubah last week. "Mr. X went...
...considering law schools, John removed Stanford from his list because the Stanford interviewer was wearing sandals and didn’t have a tie.”At the Law School, Roberts became the managing editor of the Law Review, where he was known as a fair and honest boss and a hard worker who was never seen as ideological.“Whatever the hours, he never got stressed or angry,” Charles E. Davidow, who was treasurer of the Law Review when Roberts was managing editor, said last summer. “He was just...
...truth, scholarly integrity, and equal justice became exquisitely self-evident.The university is the one place in U.S. society intended to guarantee the freedom to state the truth based upon evidence, logic, and self-scrutiny. Here, no bully can batter us, no political action committee can bribe us, and no boss can fire us for expressing a contrary opinion. The truths that we infer are subject to no test of patriotism or loyalty. Without such freedom of expression, we risk leaving life-and-death conversations to the people least able to engage tête-à-tête, those who prefer...