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This decision flew in the face of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1965 decision in Swain v. Alabama, which had allowed race to be a consideration...
...Americans?"you're not on our border," one U.S. Treasury Department official supposedly told the Thais. But for a country that had followed the global financial rules as dictated by Washington?opening itself up to large capital flows from abroad, only to get hammered as that same money flew back out in a matter of days?the truth hurt in ways that most Americans still don't get. The perception was that the U.S. would prop up another nation if threatened with a massive wave of illegal immigration, but otherwise cared only that big American banks should be able...
...Harvard’s troop of musicians went to great lengths to support the instrument. A custom-built, bicycle-wheeled carriage regularly chauffeured the regal rhythm-keeper across the river to the stadium, and on one occasion, the drum flew to Princeton in a privately-chartered plane...
...painter husband (Aaron Blabey), McKenzie makes Anna's sensual awakening both mysterious and real. But it's in her shift from arthouse to TV primetime that's most likely to cast McKenzie's talents in a new light. Shortly after filming Human Touch in late 2003, the actress flew herself to L.A. for her date with Diana Skouris. Interestingly in a show exploring "otherness" (and despite its unabashed cheesiness, The 4400 parallels the events of 9/11 and Guantanamo Bay with intelligence), McKenzie was asked to play against type. (In the pilot series, the clairvoyant 8-year-old returnee confesses...
...country's deadliest terrorist. But the latest puzzler is whether he's still in the picture. After an initial report on an Islamic website asked Muslims to "pray for the recovery of our Sheik Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi from an injury he suffered for the sake of God," reports flew rapidly, many contradictory: he had been wounded by gunfire in the lungs, or shrapnel hit his stomach and legs; he was hurt in a clash with U.S. forces a month ago and spotted at a hospital in Ramadi, or he was injured a week...