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...Irina is one of the nicest people I’ve known,” said the friend, who met Malinovskaya when he was a student at Penn and, like the victim and the suspect, is of Russian descent. “I do not think...
...raise this question to all the young people in here, and particularly those of African descent who are privileged by virtue of your presence here at this fine institution,” he said. “When the history is written on the first decade of the 21st century, 200 years from now, on what page will your name appear when they discuss the genocide in the Sudan? What will you tell your grandchildren regarding where you stood while black women and children were being raped, and abused, and exploited...
...Although overall the club does not appear to be in any immediate financial distress, Wong, 65, says that if racing revenues fall to $6.4 billion?not unrealistic at the current rate of descent?charitable contributions will have to stop. To keep that from happening, the club is calling on the government to?of course!?reduce the gambling tax. On average, 13.5% of every bet is skimmed off by the taxman. Wong, a Michigan State University engineering graduate who worked for 30 years at Ford Motor Co. before becoming jockey-club CEO in 1996, says that rate is among the highest...
...adds, "he probably saw that ridge over there as leading to Tomah and thought, if we get across, we'll be right." But Caley was wrong; the ridge on the other side only revealed more ridges and valleys in his path. Two hundred years have not made the descent any kinder; it remains a knee-jarring scramble down to where the Grose River jostles between boulders, and, just as Caley's men did with homemade twine, the team has to lower its packs on rope where the rock face is steepest. The cool Grose waters provide only short relief before...
...through congress, he has been a tireless advocate for allowing the executive and judicial branches to ignore the Bill of Rights. He has worked to close immigration hearings in order to keep due process from getting in the way of justice (read: arbitrary imprisonment of men of Middle Eastern descent). To that end, he has not only used every pretext possible to detain people without burdening the judiciary with the added task of charging these people with a crime, but he also created military tribunals in the event that the court system might make the mistake of respecting the rights...