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...were shown images of Mumbai on Google Earth and told how to disembark from their boats. Qasab and his partner, Khan, were shown video footage of their designated target: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, or Victoria Terminus, known in Mumbai as VT. The instructions were simple: "Carry out the firing at rush hours in the morning between 7 to 11 hours and between 7 to 11 hours in the evening. Then kidnap some persons, take them to the roof of some nearby building ... We were then to contact the media [and] make demands for releasing the hostages...
...what must have been his 12th shot attempt (and the toughest), much maligned no. 31 sinks the game-winning three at the buzzer, after Housman misses a tough floater. Yet another tough last-second loss for the Crimson. Brown fans rush the court...
Limbaugh, Rush • groveling at the feet of by penitent Republicans is mocked by enemies of • preference of for country of going down in flames rather than political philosophy of being proven erroneous is expressed quite emphatically by • reference by Paul Begala to as "the bloated face and drug-addled voice of the Republican party" • rooting of for planet to explode...
Obama, President Barack • failure of is hoped for by Tom DeLay • failure of is hoped for by Rick Santorum • failure of is really really REALLY hoped for by Rush Limbaugh • failure of to name Howard Dean as Secretary of Health and Human Services disappoints Howard Dean • graying of • medical marijuana distributors will not be raided by federal government headed by • poll reveals that "African Americans are significantly less likely than whites" to be amused by jokes about race of • predecessor of continues to be properly dissed...
...rush of prosecutions, however, just reminds us that the law makes a lousy parent. A legal system naturally depends on deterrence; you make an example of those you manage to catch, so that potential offenders think twice. But to many a teen, danger is as likely to feed desire as to frustrate it. The qualities required to shape their behavior, the humor and patience mixed just a certain way with clarity and resolve, are too much to expect from laws written to apply equally to everyone. Don't we need to exempt them from prosecution for being idiots...