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...Circuit is widely regarded as second only to the U.S. Supreme Court in importance, making Estrada’s nomination a weighty...
...obsessed with a series of short films that have appeared anonymously on the Internet. These are enigmatic, surreal scraps of footage that exude an overwhelming melancholy--kind of like the video in The Ring, but sad, not scary. Trouble arises when the two sides of Cayce's life short-circuit: a billionaire marketer gets wind of the films and hires her to find their creator, so he can use them as a marketing tool...
While the hilly terrain of the course played to McLoon’s strengths, the two-loop circuit also had some very technical aspects. But McLoon managed to navigate its narrow chutes and sharp turns to edge University of New Hampshire’s Kate Underwood by 13 seconds, finishing...
...shied away from getting its hands dirty. Until about five years ago, it focused instead on gathering intelligence that could be used by other parts of the government. Before that, traditional CIA officers, often working under cover as U.S. diplomats, got most of their secrets from the embassy cocktail circuit or by bribing foreign officials. Most did not even have weapons training, and they looked down on the few SOG commandos who remained out in the field as knuckle draggers, relics of a bygone era. Now the knuckle draggers are not just back; they are the new hard edge...
Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine publicly criticized the1996 ruling of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Hopwood v. Texas, which forbid the University of Texas from using race as a factor in law school admissions, with a statement to the University community...