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...newsletter is essentially a short summary of your family’s year, but it’s also a brazen work of fiction. It is meant to be a brief summary of the events of the year in the life of the family, but in reality, it is a long disquisition on how the family wanted the events of the year to unfurl. As such, it is brazen not only in its obvious and legion lies (no one tells the truth in a Christmas newsletter), but it is also in its hubris. For what is hubris if not assuming...
...Americans have ever heard of him, and most Iraqis don't know what he looks like. But such is the reputation of Abu Deraa, 48, that all of Baghdad's biggest, most brazen attacks against Sunni targets are almost automatically assumed to be his handiwork. Iraqi and U.S. officials say Abu Deraa is the mastermind behind the killing of thousands of Sunnis this year. Loosely affiliated with the Mahdi Army of the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Abu Deraa's death squad is suspected of involvement in some of the most daring kidnappings in the capital--including...
...concerns are twofold. The first is fraud, which was underscored last year when the principals of Bayou Management pleaded guilty to bilking investors of $450 million by telling some fairly brazen lies. Regulators are examining whether some hedge funds may be making illegal insider trades in certain situations, as when companies privately talk to their lenders...
...Worst of all was the jury, whose perverse verdict was the most brazen and lawless act of nullification since the heyday of Strom Thurmond. Sworn to uphold law, they decided instead to hold a private referendum on racism in the L.A. Police Department...
Even by Baghdad standards, it was an incredibly brazen snatch. In broad daylight Tuesday morning, armed men wearing police-commando uniforms kidnapped more than 100 people from the research directorate of the Ministry of Higher Education. Eyewitnesses said the kidnappers arrived in a fleet of dozens of trucks with government markings, and took barely 15 minutes to complete what was obviously a carefully planned operation. They rounded up the directorate's employees, then locked all the women in one room before taking away...