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Architectural purists dismiss Rockwell's creations as stagecraft. There is a sense that the attention he's getting for Hairspray is appropriate because his work has always been set building, not creating a fully functioning environment. Even at the Mohegan Sun, for all its finery, the empty space and boring roof structure are quite visible beyond the panels of beads that form the ceiling. You can see through the illusion...
According to the Brandano procedure, the lawyers argued, the court has the authority to reject a plea of guilty, offer pre-trial probation to the defendants, continue the case for a period of two years and ultimately dismiss the case without a final finding...
...runs the war as head of the U.S. Central Command, awarded Perez the Bronze Star for valor. Franks declared Operation Anaconda "an unqualified and absolute success," despite claims by some Afghan allies that most of the enemy got away during the 11 days of fighting. Perez and his men dismiss the charge. After the initial fire fight, they returned to the Shah-i-Kot for another week of combat--hunting down al-Qaeda in their most secure redoubt and, they say, killing hundreds of the enemy while losing just eight Americans during the campaign. The al-Qaeda survivors...
...June 26, the government counterpunched, filing a motion to dismiss Newman's petition. ("Notice there are 12 names on every one of their briefs, and just the two of us," Newman observes wryly. "The usual odds.") The prosecution attorneys, led by U.S. Attorney James B. Comey, argued that Newman can't name Bush and Rumsfeld as respondents, since they aren't technically Padilla's jailers, and that because Padilla is now being held in South Carolina, he is outside the New York court's jurisdiction. They even suggested that the President is legally untouchable: "A court of the United States...
...page reply to the government's motion to dismiss, defending Newman's status as Padilla's representative and her right to name President Bush--since he is the one who ordered Padilla put away, Newman and Patel argued, Bush is the only one who can set Padilla free. As for whether the court has power over the President, Newman and Patel argued that "to hold otherwise would be to recognize an imperial Presidency that our Constitution was designed to prevent." Newman added a charge of "forum shopping"--that the government had deliberately moved Padilla to a jurisdiction where he will...