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...jury unanimously rejected Byrne’s claim that he had used reasonable force in the incident. Taking the stand Tuesday, Byrne admitted striking Trombly in the Brighton station house but said that he had reacted in a terrified split-second after seeing the student reach for what he thought was a weapon...
Their first big coup: bringing on board investment wizard Warren Buffett, whom Schwarzenegger described as "the greatest investor ever, my mentor and my hero." Having Buffett advise on economic development lends intellectual ballast to the campaign. But it did little to reassure conservative Republicans, whose votes could well be split by other candidates in the race. Buffett has donated primarily to Democrats--including Hillary Clinton--in the past and has criticized President Bush's tax cuts as a handout for the rich. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last week, Buffett committed nothing short of heresy by suggesting...
Their cover is blown: JENNIFER GARNER is dating MICHAEL VARTAN, who plays her CIA handler on the TV show Alias. Garner was married to Scott Foley, who starred in Felicity, until the two split up in April. But don't even think it: Garner and Vartan have been dating only a few weeks. It's a case of life imitating prime-time drama, since Garner's character is in love with Vartan's. Unless it's all a ruse to cover up a secret romance with her Daredevil co-star Ben Affleck--well, probably not. But that would have been...
...Doctors attempted to separate the conjoined Bijani twins to free them from lifelong attachment, and Charles Krauthammer attempted, in his criticism of physician-assisted suicide, to split similarly inseparable moral hairs. The Bijani twins, Krauthammer wrote, "were not seeking self-destruction; they were seeking liberation. And they were trying to undo a form of mutilation imposed on them by nature." If the twins were willing to die rather than continue living attached to each other, that's hardly different from people who prefer death to being trapped in a diseased or dysfunctional body. There are those who do not believe...
...jury unanimously rejected Byrne’s claim that he had used reasonable force in the incident. Taking the stand Tuesday, Byrne admitted striking Trombly in the Brighton station house but said that he had reacted in a terrified split-second after seeing the student reach for what he thought was a weapon...