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...homestay sister Monika had no qualms about pushing me, punching me, kicking me or spooning me. And it didn’t take long before I learned to push back. With Monika’s arm around me, and two sharp elbows at my disposal, I managed to hold my ground. Come November, when the rains began, I would be long gone, but Monika would still be sleeping there as the rain pounded down outside the hut. It would be her first rainy season as a woman. Monika took me on as her responsibility almost immediately upon my arrival...
Calling Jackson a “wonderfully decent human being,” Law School professor Richard H. Fallon said he expected Jackson to share Kagan’s ability to hold the respect of a sometimes-contentious faculty that had given Harvard the moniker of “Beirut on the Charles” at one point...
...armed with little more than automatic weapons, grenades and cell phones. "Certainly, the Mumbai attacks ought to be understood clearly down to the local level," said Renuart. What got his attention - and that of everyone planning security for Obama's inaugural - is how quickly a band of terrorists could "hold a fairly large city hostage." Banning umbrellas to help keep AK-47s off the Mall, the Secret Service believes, is a worthy trade-off, even if the public disagrees...
...President's constitutional right to commute prison sentences. And they say his views of the Starr investigation evolved because of questionable actions by Starr, not White House pressure. Holder will have a chance to answer every challenge to his integrity. The Judiciary Committee will test how well those explanations hold...
...year, Televisa has broadcast daily coverage of the drug war, filming scenes of corpses, firefights and arrests amid the battles between trafficking warlords and government forces. However, it has not led any groundbreaking exposés on the cartel empires or their networks of political corruption. "We do not hold back from reporting anything. But at the same time, we do not do detective work because we are not policemen," says Francisco Cobos, news editor at Televisa Monterrey, who witnessed the Jan. 6 blasts...