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...response early one morning last May, when members of Pastor Chuck Chipman's congregation descended on a gang- infested neighborhood to rescue a 12-year-old boy being forced to work as a drug courier for a gang that was threatening him and his family. Before gang members could react, the entire family of four and all its belongings were whisked away to a safe house...
...notion of intent, though hard to prove, opens up avenues that were not available to the state prosecutors. Federal attorneys will be able to introduce evidence showing the police were predisposed to react with excessive force -- not just toward minorities but also toward anyone under arrest. In contrast to the earlier criminal case, moreover, federal prosecutors can examine the records of the defendants in other arrests, dig into their personnel files and even probe their conversations for evidence of prejudicial attitudes or a propensity toward brutality...
...words to national security in his convention acceptance speech -- than on detailed policies. He apparently hopes to establish his credentials with broad arguments of conviction: strength abroad depends on economic revival at home; the U.S. must build on freedom's victory in the cold war; leaders must act, not react. Bush no doubt agrees with most of this, but he has been unable to articulate any guiding principles...
...Decapitation should be used only when thestudy design requires this technique, because ofthe potential hazard to personnel and should beperformed by skilled personnel. Many animalspecies react adversely to the smell of blood.Animals should not be decapitated in the presenceof other animals and the investigator shall washhis/her hands between animals...
...Empire knit together in 1918, but they have deep differences of background, outlook and economic metabolism. Many Slovaks want to seize the moment to have their own republic, even though independence would cut them off from some $300 million in annual subsidies from the Czechoslovak federal government. Many Czechs react to the prospect of losing the Slovaks by thinking 1) How sad and 2) Why not? A breakup might cause anxieties among the 600,000 ethnic Hungarians who live in Slovakia but would not result in anything like the savage violence in the Balkans. The greatest danger to the Czechs...