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...Some players have psychologists, some have sportologists--I smoke.' ANGEL CABRERA, after defeating Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk by one shot at the U.S. Open...
...Other problems remain. Jim Letten, the U.S. Attorney in New Orleans, pointed to the local D.A.'s office as a key candidate for improvement if crime is to decrease. He pointed specifically to the state's "section 701" release policy, which mandates that suspects need to be formally charged within 60 days or released. Due to lack of evidence or witnesses, approximately 3,000 people were released in 2006 under the section 701 rule. Since January of this year, about 2,100 criminal suspects in New Orleans have similarly been let go, a number Letten termed "disturbing...
...Senator Jim Bunning, a Kentucky Republican, Monday introduced the third controversial amendment, which would mandate the use of 6 billion gallons of gasoline made from coal (Bunning's original amendment failed the Energy Committee by one vote). Environmentalists across the board loathe this provision, which they say would result in massive increases of carbon emissions. "Coal to liquid is an unspeakable boondoggle," O'Donnell said. "It's an absolute abomination...
MORE THAN MANY, HE WAS the squinting, ugly face of violent racism in the Jim Crow South. With his billy club, cattle prod and NEVER button--a reference to his view on black-voter registration--the beefy, sadistic former Alabama sheriff Jim Clark ironically galvanized the civil rights movement. After a stunning televised 1965 confrontation in Selma in which Clark joined in beating and teargassing peaceful protesters, public opinion shifted. "Bloody Sunday," which Lyndon Johnson called "an American tragedy," is widely believed to have expedited the President's signing of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Clark...
...Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. A caravan of activists that had traveled from Los Angeles presented a million pro-immigration reform signatures to the trio. Sen. Kennedy made sure to make mention of two of the bill's main opponents, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Jim DeMint of South Carolina. "I hope that my friend Sen. Sessions will sit down and read these letters," he said, motioning to several stacks of bound petitions at his feet. "I hope that my friend Sen. DeMint will sit down and read these letters...