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...scoffed at these murder figures and presumed the danger in Boston to be grotesquely overblown—a fictionalized byproduct of the mass media’s relentless drive to bolster ratings through breaking news. How can Puritan Boston possibly be dangerous if its only notoriously disreputable district, the combat zone, no longer even exists...
...four nights later Cloyd and Moseley set fire to four more churches to divert law enforcement. Two firefighters were injured battling the blazes. The young men were found after a massive manhunt tracked a mysterious SUV that left tracks from Cloyd?s specially purchased off-road tires. U.S. District Judge David Proctor sentenced Cloyd and Moseley to eight years and 11 months; DeBusk got seven years. The trio have been ordered to pay the $3.1 million cost to rebuild all nine churches. Proctor ordered participation in a federal substance abuse rehabilitation program to be part of their sentence. In addition...
...which highlights the so-called “Azn” subculture of predominantly Asian-American suburban communities. The “Chinatowns” segment, directed by Gunawan, explores the lives of ordinary people living in American Chinatowns. “Nathan and I went to the Garment District to look for clothes, and we’d ask ourselves questions like, ‘Is this something your 80-year-old grandma would wear?’” Lee says. “We’re trying to look at a community besides the usual...
...shell landed close by. Shrapnel ripped through the flimsy canvas and into flesh, killing Jeevatharsini's 7-year-old sister, punching a fist-sized hole in her 4-year-old brother's lower back, and slicing into her arm. Sinnathambi has now moved his family further south to the district of Batticaloa, where I found them in a makeshift camp in early March, still in shock at what had happened. "She was full of life before," he says, nodding at Jeevatharsini. "Now she's scared and cries and comes to me all the time. She cries...
...Circuit Court of Appeals, for instance, twice rejected efforts to broaden Lawrence. In 2004, it upheld Florida's law prohibiting gay adoptions by saying the importance of providing for children gives the state the right to set rules for their adoption. And later that year, it ruled that a district judge in Alabama had erred in using Lawrence to strike down the state's prohibition on the sale of sex toys. Only in Massachusetts, with its famous gay marriage decision handed down four months after Lawrence, has a top appeals court sided with plaintiffs seeking to use the decision...