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...about the deliberations in the Libby trial says that the jury was sympathetic to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, but the facts were just too convincing. For the first 10 days of their deliberations, the jurors did nothing but sort the convoluted details of the case onto 34 sheets of butcher paper they posted around the jury room. What emerged was a portrait of the Vice President's chief of staff as a man who worked long hours and had a notoriously bad memory, but not bad enough to explain away lying to the grand jury about how he heard about...
...middle-aged women wearing hijabs chat to each other in Arabic as they walk down the street. Ahead of them is a Muslim bookstore, displaying DVDs by imams and books with titles like Scientific Miracles in the Koran. On one corner there's a halal butcher shop; around another, a music store that sells only Arab music. Someone has plastered posters advertising a concert by the Moroccan musician Daoudi. But this isn't Morocco. This is France. And we're not in the suburbs, where many of France's marginalized North African communities live. The Goutte d'Or quarter...
...Food and Drug Administration on Thursday released a preliminary report on the safety of meat and milk from cloned animals. Their verdict: that these food products are no different from those derived from conventionally bred animals, and are therefore safe to eat. But don't expect your local butcher to be selling hams or rib eyes from cloned animals any time soon. The FDA's report is now available to the public and open for a 90-day comment period. Only after this time will the agency make a final decision on the safety of food products made from cloned...
...magnify the atrociousness of Forest Whitaker’s magnetic and terrifying Idi Amin. But even when you forget that the film is about a historical tragedy, you still anxiously feel that everyone in the film is a piece of meat waiting to be hacked to pieces; when the butcher comes, it feels disturbingly right...
...readers looking for early traces of familiar frissons, Harris provides Hannibal's first act of violence (attacking the butcher), his first murder (the butcher), his first interrogation by, and of, a police inspector (Inspector Popil); his first jail cell chat (except that this time he's on the other side of the bars); his first bite of a victim's flesh (both cheeks) and his first human dinner...