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...Mackey may not be one of us either. But he is one of ours. He's a monster who takes down other monsters, in our name. And while the Soprano clan was cozy in a suburban McMansion, Mackey is a civil servant with a crappy paycheck, an ex-wife and two autistic kids who need special schooling. It's not an excuse; he's surrounded by cops who could go the easy route and don't, like Captain Claudette Wyms (the outstanding C.C.H. Pounder), who's investigating Vic but won't cut corners...
...saying it will lead to chaos and civil war, but that’s too much of a risk,” said Kent W. Park, a public service fellow at the Kennedy School who served in the Army for 10 years...
...pictures of civil rights' ground zero...
...Flash forward to the evening of Nov. 4, and you can see why liberalism has sprung back to life. Ideologically, the crowds who assembled to hear Obama on election night were linear descendants of those egg throwers four decades before. They too believe in racial equality, gay rights, feminism, civil liberties and people's right to follow their own star. But 40 years later, those ideas no longer seem disorderly. Crime is down and riots nonexistent; feminism is so mainstream that even Sarah Palin embraces the term; Chicago mayor Richard Daley, son of the man who told police to bash...
...will work to advance the cause of political freedom and speech in Burundi, and allow all of its citizens to exercise universally recognized rights." The British government made similar comments in an official statement following the detention, saying it "raises concerns about the ability of Burundians to exercise their civil and political rights...