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...Meanwhile, the Justice Department has lent staff and resources to the U.S. Attorney's office here, and police are trying to nail as many suspects as possible on federal charges, thereby bypassing the struggling state system. A new crime lab is scheduled to open within weeks, which should speed up the process of bringing formal charges against accused criminals...
...This trio of woes seems to have a common thread: Underlings snared while trying to please their bosses. It's almost like blaming the hammer instead of the carpenter for a bent nail. Speaking to the Associated Press, Feith took umbrage at descriptions that his work was "inappropriate." Said he: "The policy office has been smeared for years by allegations that its pre-Iraq-war work was somehow 'unlawful' or 'unauthorized.'" He has a point: it was the Bush Administration that chose Feith's reports over those generated by its $1 billion-a-week intelligence operation. Feith's work...
From there, the already tense showdown turned into a nail-biter. Duboc and Clackson traded four straight sideouts before the crafty senior picked up a point to make it 7-4. But Clackson would not go quietly, shrinking the gap to 7-6 and fighting through five more sideouts...
...admit it. I once had a crush on Fall Out Boy. I found “Sugar, We’re Going Down” soon after the suburban Chicago band’s 2005 album hit the radio. The song breathed life into the orange-haired, black-nail-polished part of me I’d ignored since my pre-teen years. I’d found my secret summer love. But God, why are the pretty ones always so damn stupid? “Infinity on High” lacks the cheek that helped the band distinguish itself...
This practice should be disturbing to Westerners for a few reasons. Most obviously, the Chinese government’s decision to profit off the remains of executed prisoners is one more nail in the coffin of civil liberties in the country. Even more importantly, unrestricted organ harvesting creates a juicy financial incentive to maximize the number of executions in China, which already happens to execute more people than the rest of the world combined. Yet perhaps the most frightening part about China’s crimes against its citizens is that, for the most part, we don?...