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...audience members were asked to cheer for their favorite performers at the end of each round, but the judges made the final decision on which contestant to send to the next level of competition. Felton, however, said he felt the judging might have been overly influenced by the reaction of the audience. “I guess the judging was a little unorthodox,” he said. “Sometimes someone would get in one good line and the audience would be like, ‘yeah,’ but he actually was not better. But that?...
...Presidential Records Act, passed in 1978 as a reaction to Nixonian secrecy, is not a criminal statute, and the President himself oversees its compliance. In fact, the only possible punishment would be to bring criminal charges based on the theft or destruction of government property. That duty would fall, of course, to the Attorney General...
...only one who was confused in those crucial first moments. Virginia Tech officials, citing the ongoing investigation, have released few details about their initial response to the killings of Clark, who died along with Donohue's neighbor Emily Hilscher. But it's already clear that the university reaction was tragically misguided. University police have admitted that they believed the killings were a one-off domestic dispute. They didn't close campus or warn students. Even West AJ, as the dorm is called, wasn't fully locked down. And Donohue, clearly a key witness, wouldn't be interviewed for an hour...
...first significant federal gun control law, passed back in 1968 in reaction to the Kennedy assassination five years earlier, prohibited anyone involuntarily committed to a mental institution from buying firearms. Forty years later, that still remains the standard for most federal and state gun buying restrictions. The problem is that involuntary commitment was the norm four decades ago; family members, doctors and law enforcement could easily commit troubled souls to psychiatric hospitals with scant paperwork and little concern for individual or privacy rights. When Cho agreed to a voluntary committal to a psychiatric facility in 2005, he was benefiting from...
...substitute for spending time with your wife or children. The Army is at a crossroads, and the only way to prevent a further decline in readiness and fighting ability is by electing leaders who have a clear, attainable vision for the future, not a shortsighted, knee-jerk reaction to everything...