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...with a bullet to his tire. That's the story." But the government insists this wasn't Larsen's first run-in with Almaraz: the rancher is accused of kidnapping the vice minister for eight hours in February. The two alleged incidents prompted the government to file a criminal complaint of "sedition, robbery and other crimes" against Larsen and his son two weeks ago. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to press formal charges. Neither father nor son has responded publicly to the accusations, and neither responded to repeated requests by TIME for comment...
...that,” Dershowitz said in an interview. After the event, Chomsky said that Dershowitz’s attempt to join in a debate—coming only a day before the scheduled event—was meant to be rebuffed in order to provide a point of complaint for the Dershowitz camp, and therefore constituted an “infantile method of harassment.” “He approached [us] at the last minute, but we already had our program set,” Sultany said, confirming Chomsky’s statement...
...Rather than sweeping “reforms,” a more do-able proposition is a series of tweaks and adjustments to the current processes.We have to begin by asking ourselves: Does the current system “work?” Despite the quadrennial complaint that the current nominating process is too long, too expensive and too negative, the 2008 presidential campaign is producing credible nominees who will offer American voters clear distinctions.Unlike recent elections, the choice between John McCain and Hillary Clinton or John McCain and Barack Obama will not leave voters feeling they have to choose...
Even the angry comments of Jeremiah Wright have to be read as the bitter complaint of a spurned lover. Like millions of other blacks, Wright was willing to serve the country while suffering rejection. He surrendered his student deferment in 1961, voluntarily joined the Marines and, after a two-year stint, volunteered to become a Navy corpsman. He excelled and became valedictorian, later a cardiopulmonary technician and eventually a member of the President's medical team. Wright cared for Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery, earning three White House letters of commendation...
...Smith has since brought stability to a Faculty that had seen three leaders in less than two years prior to his appointment in June. But a key complaint in 2005 was also that the divisional deans’ responsibilities, two years after the position’s inception, remained unclear. And while a stated focus of Smith’s administrative review has been to specify those responsibilities—his handout at the Faculty meeting included a specific list of the deans’ new budgetary powers—he also stated that there would need to be time...