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...Justice Department is “more than willing to receive any additional information that has been uncovered,” he said. The British Library believes that Smiley may have taken three other maps from its collection in addition to the one he admitted to stealing. To prove this, the library has hired a Philadelphia lawyer with experience prosecuting art and culture thieves, according to The Hartford Courant. Carson declined to comment on what might happen to Smiley if more stolen maps were found. “We continue to entertain serious doubts about the completeness of the investigation...
Football coach Tim Murphy said in June that if the allegations against ex-captain Thomas prove true he will be fully dismissed from the team...
...tactical terms, Yushchenko smartly used Yanukovych to neutralize Tymoshenko, her blend of populism, radicalism and charisma perceived as a bigger threat. Now, however, he may be able to just as effectively use Tymoshenko's opposition status to keep Yanukovych in check, should the latter?s evolution fail to prove sufficiently deep. The backstabbing and strange alliances might not be pretty, but they sure beat street fights, or storming Parliaments by tanks. For that reason, it can be argued, the compromise that brought the two Viktors together in power is actually the triumph, not the defeat, of the Orange Revolution...
...disarming Sadr's army may prove, if anything, even more difficult than disarming Hizballah in Lebanon. That's because the three-year campaign of terror against Shi'ite civilians by Sunni insurgents has led the community to see its militias, rather than the central government, as its only protection. As that violence escalates, the likelihood diminishes that these communities will support any effort to forcefully dismantle the militias. Nor can an agreement to disarm be easily orchestrated by removing the insurgent threat, since the branch of the insurgency responsible for targeting the Shi'ites is led by al-Qaeda...
...each day driving between observation posts and his unit's forward operating base in the Baghdad area," Bush said at the ceremony. Ten days into his second tour of Iraq in January, Lopez, 24, lost both of his legs to a roadside bomb. "There's no better way to prove that you want to be a part of this country than to serve overseas in a combat zone," Lopez tells Time. "People always talk about the immigration problem, but we can show we bring good to the country, too." Immigration advocates see no problem as the number of non-native...