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...gathered throng of mourners storms his vehicle and conspires to lynch him by immolation. After filming several of the mob’s abortive attempts to set the motorist ablaze, Bonilla decides to intervene and prevent the hapless driver’s execution. Bonilla is able to delay the mob until police can arrest their intended victim, and for this act of “bravery,” Bonilla receives the dubious title “hero...
...conversations with department chairs, however, Kirby and fellow deans are said to have pointed to other budgetary pressures—most notably, higher-than-expected construction costs around campus and the delay of the University-wide capital campaign—as necessitating a year of pause...
...third reason offered for the slowdown, the department chairs said, is the delay of the University-wide capital campaign, brought on in part by the turmoil last spring over University President Lawrence H. Summers and the continuing debate over the Harvard College Curricular Review...
...DeLay and his lawyers were quick to respond. This was "an abomination of justice," DeLay said. Earle had "realized he screwed up," DeGuerin said, and scrambled to push out a new indictment. "If this doesn't prove that the motivation behind this indictment is political, then I don't know what it is," DeGuerin said in a news conference in Houston...
...indictment addresses the same facts as last week's indictments. DeLay and two associates are charged with taking corporate funds raised in Texas, sending them to the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C. and then dispatching a similar amount to five Texas statehouse candidates. A few weeks later, Republicans gained control of the Texas legislature, enabling DeLay to press for congressional redistricting that would boost Republican numbers in Congress...