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Last Tuesday, a man ran out of Cambridge Music with a stolen guitar in hand and two store employees in hot pursuit...
There is much to be said for the pursuit of one good thing. One just might find that which one seeks...
...urgency of replacing Saddam’s regime comes from his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction,” Kristol said. “His past use of terrorism as an instrument of statecraft and threats to revitalize his nuclear program makes a quick and decisive attack necessary...
John Ashcroft's aggressive pursuit of the death penalty may be backfiring. A U.S. district judge in Vermont last week ruled the federal death penalty unconstitutional, arguing that the law violates defendants' due-process rights because it allows looser procedures and standards of evidence in sentencing than are allowed at trial. The ruling in U.S. v. Fell followed a similar one by a New York judge in July. The irony is that in both cases the Attorney General ordered the local federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty even though they wanted to ask for lesser sentences. Since taking office...
...People's Republic. Citizens were called on to assist the army and police in rounding up the 21 "masterminds" of the so-called "counter-revolutionary upheaval," and "Most Wanted" posters were splashed on street corners. Authorities boasted that the criminals would find nowhere to hide. At first, the pursuit of the student leaders seemed a surreal exercise in totalitarian theater, a face-saving exercise by the party elders who had ordered troops to crush the democracy movement. But it was soon clear that this was deadly serious, as Zhang Boli reports in Escape from China, his harrowing account...