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...intimidating witnesses so that no one is ever prosecuted. "Does [the statement] mean that if they're involved in crimes, the rule of law applies to them the same as everybody else?" asks Paula McCartney, whose brother Robert was murdered by I.R.A. members in January in a bar brawl. One man is awaiting trial for the killing, but police suspect at least nine people were involved in the attack. "It's time to put some meat on the bones," says Alan McBride, whose wife and father-in-law were killed by an I.R.A. bomb in 1993. "People judge them...
Call "Robby"--a Hall of Famer who slugged 586 home runs during his playing days--crazy for the near brawl. But also call him manager of the year. In 2004, his Expos finished dead last and slunk out of Canada forlorn and for sale. (There were no takers.) This year, the Nationals are the toast of the capital and contenders in the National League East. Potential buyers are lining up like K Street lobbyists looking for a legislative handout. And the team is winning, despite lacking a true star and having a $47 million payroll, the lowest in the division...
TABLE LAMP -- Reportedly smashed this into another actor's face during a brawl while filming in India--the year after head butting a cop in France...
...April of 2003, the defendant had been walking home drunk, clad in shorts and sandals, when Colono, who sat in a parked car, heckled him for being “shitfaced.” After a 70-second brawl, Pring-Wilson struck Colono five times with a three-and-a-half inch Spyderco military knife. One of the blows pierced the victim’s heart...
...more of President Bill Clinton's judicial nominees than Democrats have blocked of Bush's, have vowed to tie up the Senate in other ways. The Senate could be headed for this historic showdown in part because it anticipates an inevitable one down the line: a full-blown confirmation brawl over the next Supreme Court nominee...