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...clothes and new cars. He politely chatted with neighbors when he took his car to Test & Tune and ate at Wanda's Restaurant. Over the past four years, he brought three bodies to a nearby crematory, telling co-owner Glenda Wilson his equipment was down and he needed a favor, she says. She always complied, free of charge. The Marsh clan went about the business of living, all the while surrounded by rotting corpses...
...savage end to the senseless crime left families and newsrooms and governments reeling. Pearl was the victim, but Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf--despised by some in his country for having abandoned his extremist allies in favor of the U.S.--may have been just as much a target. News of Pearl's murder reminded us what an ominous storm Pakistan is, with war at its edges and zealots in hiding and a President willing to risk everything by siding with the U.S. in its war against terror. His effort to drag Pakistan away from its tradition of fostering religious militancy...
...which way is Kumar's logic leaning? He won't say, but the wind may have started to turn in Fiorina's favor. In HP's latest earnings announcement, quarterly profit was a whopping three times last year's level, thanks largely to strong Christmas sales of cameras and printers. Hewlett seized upon that, saying it showed how well HP can do on its own, but others were pleasantly surprised--and more inclined to give Fiorina the benefit of the doubt...
...staff’s argument in favor of President Lawrence H. Summers’ announcement is shortsighted and harsh. To accept suspension as an expected and fair punishment for unauthorized occupation of University buildings, the staff must believe that the University is perfect—that there would never be a need for students to act out against the University in protest...
...mental illness, Williams doesn’t have the ability to comprehend that his actions were wrong—negating any retributive argument in favor of the death penalty in this case. To make matters worse, Williams was only 17 when he committed the crime. People under 18 are called “minors” for a reason—they don’t have the maturity to be tried as adults, regardless of the horror of their crime...