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Storton swears he knows who nipped him: Jonathan, the one who had long hair on the night of the crime. Clearly an open and shut case but for a small detail. By the time the twins were arrested three days after the incident, both had short haircuts. Storton still insists it was Jonathan. But one of the defense attorneys, Chris Carroll, predicts that "there will be substantial evidence submitted at the trial to show that the officer was mistaken about the identity of the biter...
...detail still to be ironed out: building the exchange. A site has been chosen, but officials don't know when construction will be done, what it will look like or when trading will begin. Talk about speculative...
This dinner, with its plump pheasant, understated Bordeaux and unobtrusive help from the Top-One School of Butlers, has been planned to the last detail by the city's most charming couple, American painter Hurley Reed and his companion, Chris Donovan. One guest, a genealogist who resists the temptation to find distinguished ancestors for rich people, is so obliging at parties that he can be put "next to a tree and he will talk to it." Another, a television-documen tary producer, temporarily quiets the victim of a recent crime with her theory that all human beings exist psychologically...
...existence of these secret organizations was first disclosed in 1976 by a U.S. Senate committee investigating CIA operations. Former CIA Director William Colby told the story in greater detail in his 1978 memoir, Honorable Men. His first assignment in the agency, Colby wrote, had been to organize stay-behind networks in Scandinavia...
...Europeans for introducing slavery into the various new worlds they encountered, ignoring evidence that the Aztec and Inca empires were also based on forced servitude. The resolution virtually ignores a reality highlighted by the Catholic bishops' pastoral: that the evils condemned by the council were first noted, in angry detail, by early Spanish defenders of Indian rights like the Dominican friar Bartoleme de Las Casas...