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Appointed U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., in 1993, Holder cracked down on gun possession and witness intimidation but was as eager to prevent crime as to lock up criminals. He toured inner-city high schools in a "scared straight" program that featured grisly slides of murder victims and a coffin filled with a lifelike mannequin of a black youth...
...team up 53-52 with under five minutes left, he popped another three, then stole the ball on the ensuing possession, forcing his opponents to foul him. He made both free throws and two more the next Harvard trip up the floor to put the proverbial nail in the coffin...
...future. "Reefs all over the world and in the U.S. are suffering," says Dr. Richard Dodge, dean of Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach, Fla. Vessel-related damage continues to be a big problem, and the two latest incidents are just "one more nail in the coffin...
...those other advantages your school seems to enjoy are similarly illusory. None of your much-ballyhooed “extracurriculars” involve lying naked in a coffin, like our illustrious Skull and Bones, so they’re basically a waste of time. Your football team may have beaten us last year, but that’s only because the steroids didn’t work fast enough. Your newspaper [FINISH THIS PARAGRAPH BEFORE MIDNIGHT GUYS...
...member Republicans for Black Empowerment, a Washington-based group that primarily aims to mobilize black conservatives. For months, he struggled over whether to support John McCain. The selection of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as McCain's vice-presidential running mate "was the nail in the coffin. She didn't exude any intellectual acuity," he says. Scoggins says his support for Obama wasn't just out of a sense of racial pride. But he was moved by Obama's forceful speech last June on personal responsibility, particularly among black men. "In the black community," Scoggins says, "the biggest problem...