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...reporter followed her to her car asking questions about taxes. The gaffe soon became fodder for a Hoffman radio ad. Then Scozzafava, hoping to chide Hoffman into participating in more debates, appeared in front of his headquarters as a one-woman protest - an image that would make any political handler cringe...
...Kinyarwanda, his name would translate as 'I Believe in God,' which unfortunately is not the case. He believes in death," Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama told reporters on Tuesday. "He was an agitator, a handler, the chief killer in Butare. The arrest of this man ... is a very big relief to survivors of the genocide." (See TIME's video "Rwandan Genocide: Juliette's Story...
...film. Even while holding conversations with his colleagues at ADM and the FBI, Whitacre contemplates tie patterns, butterfly adaptations, and the hunting techniques of polar bears. His nonsensical musings quickly reveal his atypical understanding of everyday interactions. During his first one-on-one meeting with his FBI handler, we hear him contemplate a potential friendship with the agent: “I could see us fishing, or whatever.”With a keen attention to detail, Soderbergh sets a fittingly rich background for Whitacre’s frenetic imagination. His frequent close ups-of black and green screen computers...
...full battle gear, his discomfort augmented by body armor and a Kevlar helmet. The late Sergeant Santos Cardona was sentenced to 90 days' hard labor at Fort Bragg, N.C., in 2006 for his involvement in prisoner mistreatment at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, where he worked as a dog handler. Though prisoners picked cotton and repaired railroads after the Civil War, restrictions imposed in the 1920s and '30s have curtailed prison labor. These days, prisoners' jobs are more likely to consist of making license plates or doing laundry. Not exactly fulfilling gigs, but cushy enough, comparatively, that some people might...
Dogs, he adds, respond to handlers, perhaps for reward or praise, or simply because of emotional connections, wanting to please their human partner. "Dogs aren't stupid - they cheat," Mesloh says. "What goes down the leash, comes up the leash." In the Netherlands, where tough evidence protocols are in place, a suspect scent is taken to a lab, where the dog's reactions are tested without a handler present...