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This year, however, many thought Reeves was seeking to expand his powers beyond the scope appropriate for a city whose charter calls for a strong city manager and weak elected officials...
Reverend William Robinson said that he was informed by Helen Chucko, a receptionist at the agency, that "a person with a rifle with a scope on it had drawn a bead on his wife in his home in Massachusetts and she screamed and hit the floor, and by the time the police got there, the individual had gone...
Frustrating "only ifs" remind us how tightly budgeted our time here is. Declaring a concentration at the end of the first year, (a relatively premature time to have developed a narrow scope of interest) leaves one with little time to roam the college fields of study. Maybe I had dishonest parents or deceitful first-year advisers, but I was told to take a bit of everything--there is no rush to decide. Sure, I can take my time, maybe put off pre-med until after college and then add two more years to the already too-long trek to medical...
Outside the defense team, the common view is that the mind-boggling scope of the case is allowing Jones to fashion theories of whatever kind. Federal investigators have already turned over to the defense more than 21,000 witness statements, more than 400 hours of videotapes from various surveillance cameras and even satellite photographs of 20 sites in Oklahoma and Kansas that were taken by intelligence agencies. "It's the largest criminal investigation in the history of the U.S.," Jones points out. "Larger than Kennedy's death, larger than Oswald by any standard...
Kidd said yesterday that she is working to expand the scope of the administrative duties of those who work in her office. She said she is currently meeting with the staff of Phillips Brooks House and the Faculty's office of personnel to determine whether the staff would be able to take on new duties...