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...reach its final conclusions until later this summer. One problem slowing that probe is the refusal of Iraqi families to allow the bodies of the victims to be exhumed. In some previous cases where U.S. troops were under suspicion, Iraqi corpses have in fact been brought back to Dover Air Force Base for US forensic specialists to examine. Navy investigators are still trying to get the Iraqi families in the Haditha probe to change their minds...
Sure, it's easy to call Seacrest glitzy and vapid. Heck, let's do it: he is perfect for Idol because he so gamely embodies its glitziness and vapidity. Everything about his precision-moussed pate and cliffs-of-Dover grin screams, You are watching a show about show biz! But this is why the man can afford the finest hair gels and dentrifices: the successful host is wise enough to be the fool. There are exceptions, like the beneficent and vengeful god Oprah, but America tends to like its TV hosts risible: fussy Alex Trebek, funny-haired Donald Trump, screwball...
...People were being literally driven out of their neighborhoods by Harvard expansion,” says David Sullivan, a 1977 graduate of Harvard Law School who was elected to the City Council in 1979.Harvard’s authority as a landlord was drawn from the Dover Amendment, a state statute that exempts non-profit educational institutions from zoning laws, which regulate the permitted uses of property.Because the offices planned for the Sumner Street building all fell under the category of educational use, the city could not stop Harvard from driving those tenants out.Though the city’s hands...
...confined to his stall for several months Sources: Corinne Sweeney, DVM, New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals; Atlas of Topographical Anatomy of the Domestic Animals, Vol. 1 ; Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx Zoo; Animal Painting and Anatomy, by W. Frank Calderon (Dover, 1975) Graphic for TIME by Ed Gabel; reported by Kristina Dell
...science, and by that measure alone the Dover school board's attempts to make it so were indeed inane. But beyond that the board insisted that by leaving out the G-word you remove the religious connotation from ID, thus evading a 1987 Supreme Court ban on religion in science classrooms. Again, the board bought the story of people like Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe, an ID proponent, who says that ID doesn't assume the existence of God (although Behe admitted he thinks the Intelligent Designer is God). Judge Jones didn't buy that loophole (and for that matter...