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Still, despite the relatively low-key public response to the beatings, the situation could still change for the worse. The FBI and the local district attorney have said they are monitoring the department's internal investigation and could bring charges against the officers. Ramsey has been under pressure to revamp the department's policy on the use of violence in the face of 35 incidents in two years where police have killed civilians. Smith says the black community has its eye on Nutter - one of a new, younger, and largely untested generation of African-American leaders - and expects...
There was no sugar coating this one - the Republican Party got beat, and it got beat soundly. In any other year, Mississippi's 1st Congressional district would not have been a question. President Bush won the northeast corner of the state with two-thirds of the vote in 2004, the same margin that elected the last Republican congressman there in 2006. But Tuesday night, in a special election to replace the Representative who had moved on to take over Trent Lott's Senate seat, the results came in ugly. Travis Childers, a pro-life Democrat who supports gun rights, swept...
...Republicans lost the once-safe Illinois seat held by former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, followed by a Louisiana loss in another long-held seat this month. On Capitol Hill, Democrats did not even try to contain their glee. "The Republicans can run, but they can't hide in any district in America," proclaimed Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which spent close to $1.8 million on the race...
...Meanwhile, he does what he can. He has befriended District Commissioner Mullah Abdul Raziq, and is encouraging him to take a stronger leadership role. He gives Raziq money, flour and oil to pass out to the villagers that have returned. Today, he has asked Raziq to convene a shura, or meeting, with the village elders. En route to the gathering, Shervington encounters another farmer tending to his opium harvest. "Last time you brought us shoes as gifts and it made big problems for us," Ghulam Madin tells the major. "The Taliban came and took them away. We had to promise...
...District Commissioner Raziq hugs old friends as he arrives for the shura in the mosque courtyard where some 30 men wait under shade trees. They are happy to see him, but wary too, having been warned by the Taliban to stay away. But these are hungry times, and the promise of flour draws them anyway. Shervington tells the gathered men, "I know you are scared of the big guns up on the hill. If the Taliban come here and fire at me, I promise I will not fire back into your village. But I also need your help to defeat...