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Thornburgh added to the perception of prosecutorial impunity in 1989, when he declared that Justice lawyers were not subject to disciplinary action by state bar associations. Federal judges were furious. "Recent history suggests that the Department of Justice is not at all conscientious about disciplining those department attorneys who engage in misconduct," wrote U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel in a 1991 opinion...
...plan being brokered by U.N. and OAS envoy Dante Caputo is far from completion, and Aristide's return is months away -- if ever. Many suspect the military is only playing along to get the international community off its back. Hard-liners within the army, furious at the prospect of international monitors, tried to mount a coup two weeks ago, and a group of young soldiers at the Freres army camp outside Port-au-Prince mutinied on Jan. 20. The 8,400- man army is dangerously riven: its rank and file fear that its leaders will cut and run into comfortable...
...latest slip of the lip occurred during his Sarajevo visit. Angered by a local journalist's furious denunciation of the U.N., Boutros-Ghali snapped back, "I understand your frustration. But you have a situation that is better than 10 other places in the world. I can give you a list...
...form of rabies which has appeared in Massachusetts is the "furious" form, he said, in which an infected animal will attack anything it sees...
Like any other boss, he's never to blame. When a furious customer calls to complain that an important package has not arrived, this manager switches to falsetto, pretending to be a secretary, while he gets Federal Express on the other line to run an instant trace on the goods. (Did you know they could do that?) FedEx spoofs executive puffery while showing business customers everywhere that thanks to those little hand-held computers carried by its staff, it always knows precisely where every package...