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...into the blinding, setting sun entering through the church's plain-glass windows, Christie stepped down into the aisle. "How do you think those politicians are going to react if you send me to go and sit in the governor's chair after we sent all of them to prison the last seven years? There's going to be a whole different atmosphere down there when there's a new hall monitor in the halls of the State House." (Read "Jersey Corruption Scandal: The Israeli Connection...
...Gates arrest as a metaphor for the plight of all black people. And yet much of what we think of as "black issues" doesn't really affect most black people. We too easily conflate the words disproportionate and majority. While a disproportionate number of black males are in prison, the majority of us have no experience with hard time. Black people are overrepresented in the ranks of impoverished Americans - but most of us are not poor. Affirmative action may ignite all sorts of racial tensions - but a lot of black people will never apply to a college where such...
...residents remain unconvinced despite the details of the 14-page indictment. "The government came and took away perfectly good people," one neighbor told the press. "And it's going to take a whole lot of evidence to convince me otherwise." If convicted, Boyd and his sons face life in prison. (Read "Bryant Neal Vinas: An American in Al Qaeda...
...Western intelligence official familiar with Tehran's offer. The official says the offer included assurances that the MEK operatives would not be tortured and that international human-rights organizations would have access to them. "They said, 'We'll let the Red Cross or Amnesty [International] monitor the MEK prisoners, and we won't put them into some Guantánamo-like prison,' " says the official...
...case, a sidelined Ahmadinejad would further radicalize the executive branch of the regime. Khamenei has shown in the aftermath of June 12 that he will not compromise with the reformists (although earlier this week, under intense opposition pressure, he ordered a prison housing political dissidents in south Tehran to be shuttered). There is thus little hope that a decommissioned Ahmadinejad would leave room for a compromise replacement who could defuse the postelection crisis; a coup would in all likelihood further fuel the opposition and throw the country into further chaos...