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...courts, it is common for a defense lawyer to pay off witnesses, the judge and even the prosecutor to obtain a favorable verdict for his client. In the end, some would-be litigants find it is cheaper, and more effective, simply to hire a hit man. "Karachi today," says Tariq Amin, a fashion stylist and prominent social commentator, "is like Chicago in the days of Al Capone mixed in with the Middle Ages...
...March, ANC members voted to take two items off the wish list that they considered the most difficult to obtain, saying they hoped to speed the negotiations along. They agreed not to place a limit on the size and density of building projects...
...plan would change shopping period into an add-drop period when students would have to obtain several signatures in order to change their schedules...
...says she did find the tutors in Quincy House supportive of her efforts to obtain a public service job and believes the resources at Harvard are improving for students interested in service...
McGrath Lewis says that the admissions office can guarantee a class of students who can obtain all A’s in their courses—this, she says, is not a difficult task to accomplish...