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...website that specializes in investigative journalism, has published a lengthy report that challenges some of the basic facts in Frey's book. They found no evidence that Frey had a relationship with a girl who died in a car accident in high school, an incident that does much to stoke Frey's dark-star energy. They found his claim to have engaged in a melee with police officers when he was arrested in 1992 to have been fabricated. Most disturbingly, in a way (since a major plot point hangs thereon), the Smoking Gun report questions Frey's claim that...
Republican officials say they are so worried about the Abramoff problem that they are now inclined to stoke a fight with Democrats over the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in an effort to turn the page from the lobbying investigation. Outside groups plan to spend heavily, and the White House will engage in some tit for tat with Democrats as the hearings heat...
...When the summer ends, the two go home: Jack to rodeo riding in Texas and Ennis to his fiancée in Wyoming. Both get married and have children. But the separation becomes unbearable, and they organize regular “fishing trips” on Brokeback to again stoke the fires from that first journey.Yet, the film’s much touted sex scenes are none too graphic; there is minimal nudity and very strategically placed lighting. But even the most innocuous of kisses and embraces shared by the duo go well beyond the average representation of male homosexual...
...pressure from Vanguard, the low-cost fund company that specializes in passive index-fund investing as opposed to Fidelity's preferred style of active management. Index investing has soared in popularity. American Funds is a dominant provider of funds sold through financial advisers and has used that network to stoke its growth, as opposed to Fidelity, where only a portion of its funds are sold through advisers and which traditionally has relied on good performance so its funds stand...
...many Syrians who have grown impatient with the thuggish tactics of the Assad regime, the U.N. investigation into Hariri's death is likely to stoke more outrage. The report not only provides a rare glimpse into the workings of Syria's police state; if its findings are true, it also makes a devastating case that Assad family members were complicit in state-sponsored murder. The report, quoting an unidentified Syrian witness "who claims to have worked for the Syrian intelligence services in Lebanon," says that senior Syrian and Lebanese security chiefs first decided to kill Hariri last September. A month...