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...affect the November elections, he replied caustically, "You mean when General Rove calls in the air strikes in October?" And when majority leader Tom Daschle erupted on the Senate floor last week, accusing the Bush White House of politicizing the national-security debate, he fingered Rove as a principal culprit...
...according to the original police report. Further investigation indicated otherwise: Tse had actually crashed the car, called Shing at home and at Shing's suggestion, Tse left the scene, allowing the chauffeur to ask the arresting officer, Lau Chi-wai, if he could "stand in" for Tse as the culprit. Shing and the officer then went to the Central Police station, where Lau asked him to fill out forms indicating that he was thedriver. According to press reports, Tse was driven from the scene by Cheung, his romantic link of the moment. The story was now sounding like a Hong...
...affect the November elections, he replied caustically, "You mean when General Rove calls in the air strikes in October?" And when majority leader Tom Daschle erupted on the Senate floor last week, accusing the Bush White House of politicizing the national-security debate, he fingered Rove as a principal culprit...
...Price wars, negative advertising?virtually anything goes. But in the eastern Chinese city of Tangshan, capitalism has morphed into mass murder. Someone sprinkled rat poison on breakfast treats served at the Heshengyuan Soy Milk snack shop in Tangshan, killing at least 40 people and sickening 300 more. The alleged culprit, arrested by local police, is a rival whose eatery suffered because the Heshengyuan snack shop was more popular. Such culinary skulduggery isn't new: earlier this summer the owner of a rice-noodle shop in the southern province of Guangxi poisoned a competing shop's broth, causing gastric distress...
...Florida’s Broward and Miami-Dade counties, votes were miscounted—or sometimes not counted at all. The election system itself was part of the culprit; the complicated voting mechanism confounded voters and polling officials alike...