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...Roaming thugs beat them or send them on to the cops who, on a bad day, can lock them up for a year for insulting the president. For the more notable critics of government (oddly myself included), the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO)—known to torture, maim, and cause people to magically disappear—steps...
PLEADED NOT GUILTY. JOSE PADILLA, 35, U.S. citizen held without charge for more than three years as an enemy combatant suspected of terrorist ties; to new charges--filed after his lawyers were poised to challenge his detention before the Supreme Court--of conspiracy to "murder, kidnap and maim" abroad; in Miami...
...discussing with the Iraqis the possibility of a partial withdrawal as early as next year, Bush said that "it makes no sense" to set any timetable for leaving. Rice told TIME she believes the insurgents are "losing steam" as a political force, even though their ability to kill and maim at will appears undiminished. When Rice points to "rather quiet political progress" while the country remains embroiled in chaos, even some of her backers cringe. Says a Republican elder statesman: "I don't have any sense of where she thinks she's going on Iraq...
Even in his playing years Cobb assumed a mythic stature. The garrulous Casey Stengel summed up his contemporary in a lone sentence: "It was like he was superhuman." Others would say subhuman. On his most courteous afternoons, Cobb slid in, spikes high and sharpened to maim. He wrangled with teammates, two wives, five children and innumerable ticket holders. When a New York fan taunted him, Cobb climbed into the stands and stomped the offender. It was later pointed out that the stompee had been missing all of one hand and three fingers of the other. Cobb replied tenderly...
...Iraq. Lujan, with his innocent face, seemed out of place in the uniform of war and on the streets of hell. Many of us are unable to comprehend how, at the beginning of a new millennium, we are still sending out our beloved children to kill and maim one another. Where are the protests? Will we never learn? Martha Howe Beaverton, Oregon...