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Malcolm X's daughter Qubilah Shabazz pleaded not guilty to charges that she plotted to have Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan killed. Meanwhile, Farrakhan publicly echoed the claim of Shabazz's lawyers that the case was a setup by the government...
...followed a singular course. In 1977 the 17-year-old was arrested in the bombing of a Soviet bookstore. Subsequently, according to court documents, he turned government informer and betrayed co-conspirators in a second attempted bombing: the Associated Press quoted a former acquaintance as calling him "a setup artist." The government sent him to Minneapolis as part of the witness- protection program and assigned him a new name, under which he was arrested in a cocaine bust. His hearing, as it happens, was scheduled, then postponed, the day before Shabazz's murder-conspiracy arraignment. Shabazz's lawyer, Scott Tilsen...
What's truly bizarre is that people actually visit these places -- not just in ones or twos but by the thousands. The hot spot this past holiday season was the Rome Lab Snowball Cam, which advertises itself as a robot arm, ice machine and camera setup that invites Internet visitors to heave snowballs at engineers working at an Air Force base in Rome, New York. Like so many other Pentagon projects, however, the Snowball Cam turned out to be less than it promised. The lab was real. So were the engineers. The snowballs, however, were "virtual" -- which...
...biggest defendant in the breast implant litigation, Dow corning Corp., is contributing at least $7 million for the research. Dow purports to have no influence on the setup or conduct of the study...
...outcome is consistent with the Verba committee report. So, CLUH does not have a problem with the setup, since Harvard is not using money from students," he said. "I don't think Harvard is endorsing discrimination because Harvard itself is not giving the money. It is analogous to these students paying themselves...