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...Chicagoans are still on edge. Their mayor, Richard M. Daley, has led a dazzling economic and cultural renaissance during his nearly 20-year rule. Yet, for all Daley's success, his police department remains a blemish on his legacy. Weis was named to the job in November, following the resignation of the last superintendent, Philip Cline, in April 2007, amid a series of department scandals. They included an apparently drunken off-duty officer who was videotaped beating a female bartender. In September, federal authorities charged a member of the department's elite special operations unit with planning a colleague...
...person of Kennedy's age who suffers a seizure, says Blumenthal, "we can't rule out anything cardiovascular or cerebrovascular." That means that tests of the electrical activity of Kennedy's heart will be useful in isolating any potential abnormalities in his heart function, such as a slow heart rate or an irregular heartbeat, that could have contributed to the seizure. CAT scans and MRIs of the brain will also be needed to ensure that Kennedy's episode wasn't caused by a tumor or infection in the brain...
...event, given Senator Kennedy's medical history, it made sense to examine him more closely for signs of stroke. If the doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston - where Kennedy was airlifted from the Cape Cod hospital where he was first taken - can rule out a stroke, then they will begin looking for other possible causes for his seizures...
...Well, apparently she's somebody. The Toledo court took just two days to rule that, willingly or not, Telma is indeed a public figure and therefore not protected by a 1982 law that prohibits the publication of images of private individuals without their consent. "It was a very poorly formulated suit," says Peñafiel. "If she feels like her privacy has been invaded, she should sue the individuals responsible on criminal charges, not try to get 57 institutions - most of whom have treated her with exquisite respect - barred from taking her photo. The judge acted correctly; this...
...terms in Internet forums, restaurants and tea shops, often generating an inchoate anxiety about possible calamities to come or punishment for past wrongs. Some find a grim significance in the fact that it occurred at the boundary of China and Tibet--where military intervention in demonstrations against Beijing's rule resulted in bloodshed in March, sparking global protests that sullied China's image ahead of the Olympic Games. Others point to a string of recent calamities--a destructive snowstorm, an outbreak of disease that killed dozens of children, a fatal train accident--as evidence of some kind of heavenly displeasure...