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Today's boys may wear their pants too damned baggy and go around with iPod buds in their ears. They know everything about Xbox 360 and nothing about paper routes. I doubt that they slog to school through deep snow as I recall doing back before the globe warmed up. But judging from the numbers, they are pulling themselves up from the handbasket to hell...
...belief that the suspect committed the crimes charged. This low standard creates room to pile on the most severe charges possible to bully a defendant into a plea bargain. If a case ends up going before a jury, the prosecutor would have to prove his case beyond a reasonable doubt. So why give him the chance, Davis argues, to "intimidate, harass or coerce a guilty plea" with charges he knows he cannot prove at trial? Davis would bump the probable-cause standard to something requiring more certainty...
...iteration of Rowling's abiding thematic concern: the overwhelming importance of continuing to love in the face of death. On this point, at least, we're not waiting for a new wrinkle. Dumbledore has been schooling us on this subject since Goblet of Fire, if not longer - when in doubt Rowling tends to err on the side of quashing ambiguity, both telling and showing when one would probably do. So we have known for a while that Voldemort cannot love, that he has been spiritually ruined by his parents' deaths, and he will kill anyone to stave...
...wonder Farhad agreed to go to Jalalabad to kill a fellow Muslim. Still, wasn't there a doubt in his mind about taking his life like that and who knows how many others? No. The Taliban had told him that when he pushed the button on his suicide vest, it was Allah then who would decide whether to summon him to heaven...
...reluctance of "Tamere" to identify himself as a hash smoker casts doubt on his claims about the purported immunity of tokers, there is statistical evidence to support his contentions about how commonplace the habit now is. According to a new study by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addiction, this nation of 60 million now includes 4 million cannabis smokers, 1.2 million of whom identify themselves as "regular" inhalers (10 times or more per month), while a further 550,000 are daily users. And a whopping 12.4 million are believed to have occasionally experimented with the drug. French cannabis consumption...