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Purpose-built for the poor, the tenement block has never seen good days, but someone once cared enough to decorate its narrow hall with a print of a wide-eyed child. Now a real child, no more than 2 years old, dirty and distressed, holds himself up on the open door. Police officers Nick Weston and Amanda Lovegrove have come to this housing project in Hackney, a London borough northeast of the city center, to investigate reports of a knife attack. They are arresting the toddler's uncle, who admits brandishing a kitchen blade but says he was just protecting...
...rotting wooden boats on the garbage-strewn beach at Al-Faw represent the last frontier at the far corner of southeastern Iraq. Barely 55 yards (50 m) across a narrow stretch of water known as the Shatt al-Arab - close enough to swim over - lies Iran, an elusive but increasingly intimate ally to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government, and the principal country the U.S. accuses of fueling violence and illegal militias in Iraq...
...handle it. My stomach grumbles between meals. I lie in bed unable to drift off in the wee hours of the morning, then wake up in the middle of the afternoon. Somehow the city—with its flashing lights, euphoric ruckus, its paint-splattered walls and narrow, endless alleyways—has managed to halt my internal clock. Pause it, if you will...
...took controversial, sometimes outrageous positions on race, foreign relations and the culture wars, courting controversy and infuriating rivals but often outmaneuvering his centrist and liberal rivals. In the process, he also rewrote the way Americans elect their Senators by transforming his notoriety into mountains of campaign cash and a narrow but motivated grassroots majority in his home state...
...that he was worried about "the personalization of judicial politics," whereby people identify the rule of law with the way individual Justices vote in closely divided cases. Embracing as a model his greatest predecessor, John Marshall, Roberts said he would use his power to assign majority opinions to promote narrow decisions agreed to by wide, bipartisan majorities rather than by polarizing 5-4 splits. On an evenly divided court, Roberts felt he could convince the liberal and conservative camps that converging on narrow opinions was in everyone's interest...