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...review. His blue-ribbon commission issued more than 80 recommendations, but the state legislature hasn't passed any reform measures. As the clock ticked on his term, Ryan began to personally review all death-row inmates' cases. "I have taken extraordinary action to correct manifest wrongs," he said. But Cook County state's attorney Richard Devine, whose office prosecuted the four pardoned men, called the Governor's actions "outrageous and unconscionable." Ryan, he said, "has breached faith with the memory of the dead victims, their families and the people he was elected to serve...
...staff members scout out local restaurants and retail stores and then ferry him around by van (his license was suspended in 1995 after he was stopped for speeding and driving without insurance; he still owes $850 in fines) to fill out applications. With several years of experience as a cook, De-Shawto felt confident at first that he would get something quickly. But more than two months of diligent canvassing and follow-up have yielded nothing. "Before now, it never took me more than two weeks to find a job," he says dejectedly...
...piled out, doing calisthenics to keep warm, while the vehicle roared and slid around the frozen lava. That night we camped at the foot of the volcano, in a meadow carpeted with yellow rhododendrons and crimson bearberries. While we hauled water from a freezing stream, Elena, our cook, served up meat stew, brown bread, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, cheese and chocolates?Xone of many feasts...
...store's true raison d'être is elsewhere. "Be offers a new way of eating that's in tune with the times, that fits into our schedule while fulfilling our fancies," says Ducasse. That is, fast food. In Be's ultra-modern basement kitchen, eight young cooks are hard at work making snacks the French can be proud of. The shop's glass-fronted counter is stocked with 17 different types of sandwich, including sardines in olive bread with olive oil, basil and sun-dried tomatoes (€8) and the Be hotdog, with its chipolata sausages, truffles and whole...
...kind of guy al-Qaeda likes to work with. Fearing the worst, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police gave the case national security status, called the FBI and started grilling Hamdani. Around Christmastime, the Pakistani spilled a tantalizing tale. He said he had been paid thousands of dollars to cook up travel documents for 19 men who had traveled from Pakistan through London to Toronto in early December. He thought they had reached the U.S. on Christmas...