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...think it's refreshing in an age where there's so much bring-home-the-bacon for your district, he's been so disciplined with money." -Keven Cohen, a South Carolina radio-show host, on the governor's opposition to heavy government spending (New York Times, April...
...handful of squat and humble warehouses that make up Dubai's unofficial creative district bear little resemblance to the emirate's legendary multibillion-dollar skyline. But in just three years, around 30 galleries and cultural institutions have set up shop in this dusty neighborhood. In the process, they have helped inspire private and governmental initiatives designed to alter the perception that Dubai is nothing but a characterless, globalized marketplace of vulgar shopping malls and exploited workers...
...just prosecutors and police who have embraced DNA testing. While genetic matches are extremely reliable in fingering criminals, they're virtually foolproof in exonerating the innocent. Some 240 convictions have been overturned in 33 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Innocence Project, a nonprofit advocacy group that works to free the wrongly convicted. Seventeen people have been released from death row after DNA evidence cleared them. Scott Fappiano, who spent more than 20 years in prison for the 1983 rape of a New York City woman, walked free in 2006 after testing showed he couldn't have...
...Procurement Policy and was a co-chair of Congress's Information Technology Working Group. (He also led the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and is popular on both sides of the aisle in Congress.) Crucially, Davis also has good connections to the IT private sector. His district, the 11th, is bristling with technology companies. Since retiring from Congress, Davis has joined the consulting firm Deloitte. Davis was not available for comment. (Read about Chinese cyberspies...
...chained to a chair and punched, while Zhang, also roughed up during their arrest, was locked in a cage. Their transgression? They were representing the family of Jiang Xiqing, a man who belonged to the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. After a few hours of questioning, the Jiangjin district police released them around midnight. "We were scared, but the people [we represented] were even more scared," says Li. "So we went back the next...