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...Malcolm landed in Minneapolis, Minn., where she thought about killing Farrakhan, a man her mother believed had conspired in her father's death. The government's case against Qubilah rested on taped conversations in which she talked about the plan. But the tapes were provided by a dubious witness, Michael Fitzpatrick, a former schoolmate of Qubilah's who was also an FBI informer. Farrakhan himself was among the many who eventually labeled the whole affair a setup, charging that Fitzpatrick had pushed Qubilah into the scheme so he could turn her over in exchange for leniency on drug charges...
Since it opened, complaints about Loker's features have ranged from commentaries regarding the dubious usefulness of Loker's two conspicuous LED (light-emitting diode) displays to frustrated exclamations about the hang-out's dearth of computer terminals...
...took the dreaded English A anticipatory Exam and I flunked it, a dubious start for a would-be writer. But it was a well-disguised blessing, and the strict standards of my English A section man (his face remains, his name is gone) imposed a discipline on my thought as well as my prose that I realized was overdue...
...well-to-do family in Huntington Beach, Calif., has a rap sheet two pages long that includes such charges as assault with a deadly weapon, obstructing an officer, burglary and buying cocaine. And another couple who may be called to place Markhasev at the crime scene has the dubious distinction of being alleged crack suppliers to Markhasev, Zakaria and Peters...
...Grobmyer's plan did not even get as far as other dubious proposals that landed at the White House last year: the rescue of a Chinese-American dissident from a Beijing jail (pushed by entrepreneur Johnny Chung, who gave $366,000 to the party) and the transport of natural gas across war-torn remnants of the Soviet Union (pushed by tycoon Roger Tamraz, who gave $200,000). But then again, in the strange case of the radioactive casks, no money landed in Democratic coffers...