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Justice officials shrug off any weaknesses in the case. "We wouldn't have brought it unless there was some confidence we'd be able to prove it in a court of law," says one. The same officials claim that criticism of the particulars in this case and others like it misses the point. Since 9/11, they say, their marching orders have been very clear: disrupt first, prosecute later. That may mean potentially sacrificing a legal victory by gathering evidence in unorthodox or inadmissible ways, or resorting to the Al Capone strategy of using lesser charges--like immigration violations, minor perjury...
...sent twelve Republicans and only seven Democrats to the House in 2004 from a state that has not supported a Republican presidential nominee in nearly two decades. As the Washington Post lamented, the Supreme Court “examined a fundamental breakdown in American democracy and responded with a shrug.” If Vieth’s tenuous five-to-four majority remains in place, then the Court probably will not intervene to stop any partisan redistricting plans. That precedent, coupled with the potential repercussions of the Texas redistricting scheme, have laid the groundwork for a crisis...
...there more than that? Is it truly possible to look at the later Dali, at the endless recyclings of his Surrealist mannerisms or his hologram of Alice Cooper, the '70s rock nuisance, and not shrug? The well-argued Philadelphia show says it can be done--just pick your way carefully among the works. "Salvador Dali," which runs through May 15, doesn't reposition him as a master of the postwar era. But it rescues him from the status of purest kitschmeister and brings back some spectacular pictures...
Harvard administrators initially responded with a shrug: the decision to offer the position was made by the independent reunion committee—it was out of their hands...
...highly technical slalom event to the nail-biting, death-defying downhill. The last time anyone did that was Marc Girardelli, skiing for Luxembourg in 1988. But Girardelli needed 71 days to accomplish the feat. Miller, characteristically, took just 16. "I find my groove pretty quickly," Miller concedes with a shrug. He had just finished a day of downhill training and a late-night volleyball game to top it off. "Four or five days and I'm there," he says. "It's easy for me." Going into skiing's world championships, which run through Feb. 13 in Bormio, Italy, the talented...