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Finally, as the first female party leader in Congress, Pelosi will command huge attention from the public and hopefully draw back many of the female voters the party lost in this past election. She is a source of inspiration for many Congresswomen and female voters alike and will no doubt garner both fundraising and electoral support for this reason...
Stephen O’Connor, a Harvard University Police Department officer stationed at the Longwood Medical Campus, volunteered at MASCO’s Joint Operating Center, which is a central command unit that runs during emergencies...
...obsessive control of information? Mystery, for the Chinese Communist Party, is a tool of power. The ability to spring a surprise on the world cultivates an aura of command?over the people, the media, and, as the Party pretends to believe, over the very course of history. Keeping internal processes secret also prevents lower-ranking Party members and the public mobilizing to alter the course of events...
...German operation to arrest Osman Petmezci and Astrid Eyzaguirre in September seemed to go like clockwork. Acting on a tip from America's Criminal Investigation Command (CID), police nabbed the pair on suspicion of plotting to bomb a U.S. military base near Heidelberg. After searching the couple's apartment, investigators found five rudimentary pipe bombs, raw material for 18 kilos of explosive powder, and a portrait of Osama bin Laden. Petmezci and Eyzaguirre are now in custody, awaiting trial. Another victory for German law enforcement? Not quite. CID's Aug. 29 warning wasn't the first call from...
...orders, captured “enemies” of the regime were often sent to forced labor and concentration camps or else just summarily killed in their jail cells. On one night alone in 1919, some 1,500 Moscow prisoners were executed at Dzerzhinsky’s command. His Cheka was also feared for its particularly sadistic methods of torture. These included shoving victims into tanks of boiling water, sawing their bones in half and allowing rats to eat through their internal organs. The Cheka later evolved into the infamous KGB, a similarly murderous, clandestine security organ that would paralyze...