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Even if we could make valid inferences about these men’s character, it would be none of our business. They are public figures only because of the actions of a corrupt District Attorney and his police, media and faculty enablers. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has declared them to be “innocent,” and they deserve to return to normal, private life as much as possible. That includes having their private morality free from public scrutiny...
...Stewart does it through winning community support. For the past year, he has labored tirelessly to transform the Murad Khane slum in Kabul's 200-year-old city center into a heritage district and tourist magnet for Afghans and foreigners alike. At first, local reaction was about the same as one would expect if some bowler-hatted Brit showed up at a Rio favela and proposed that he help residents spruce the place up. "I told him he would fail," says Palawan Aziz, the neighborhood's headman and now the project's strongest supporter. Stewart persevered, visiting residents and charming...
...turns out she was lying (or, at the very least, seriously, seriously mistaken). The case crumbled as her story changed—during the investigation, she gave more than a dozen different accounts of her supposed assault. When it became apparent that Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong was completely mishandling the case, Cooper stepped in and cleaned up the mess...
...game. It was packed to the rafters with chatting students, most in orange or maroon shirts or hoodies bearing the Virginia Tech logo. The rafters themselves were hung with banners from previous years' basketball victories, and pictures of famous Hokie players from years past. State Senator John Edwards, whose district comprises Blacksburg, worked the front row, shaking hands with U.S. Senators John Warner and Jim Webb and most of the state's U.S. House members...
...neighborhoods such as family-friendly High Park and artsy Annex are suddenly seeing homes sold for as much as $900,000, while new condos sprout almost weekly from former downtown parking lots, barely staying ahead of demand. Even Donald Trump has been drawn to the party: In the financial district, condos at Trump Toronto start at $1.6 million...