Word: swifts
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...Yesterday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for swift action to ensure “a message is sent that mistreatment of animals will be not be tolerated by anyone.” San Bernardino District Attorney Michael Ramos has taken an admirably strong response, filing charges against the plant’s manager and an employee implicated in the video. According to Shapiro, this may be the first time ever that slaughterhouse employees have been indicted on felony-level animal cruelty charges—despite the suspension of 12 slaughterhouses for cruelty violations last year alone...
...displayed an impressive ability to talk for hours without a text, but his train of thought was occasionally derailed. At times he would start a sentence with a shout but end in a mumble. Quoting obscure passages from Jonathan Swift and reminiscing about old political battles, Foot seemed like a ghost from the past, "a kind of walking obituary for the Labor Party," as Guardian Columnist Peter Jenkins put it. In the dwindling days of the campaign, journalists began comparing Foot to another doomed figure, King Lear...
Republicans have pulled some dirty tricks before: Swift Boats, Watergate, you name it. But this time they have gone too far. In its desperate hunger for victory at any cost, the Republican Party is on the verge of choosing a presidential candidate, John McCain, who is widely regarded (everywhere except inside the Republican Party itself) as honest, courageous, likable and intelligent...
...advisers did reach a decision, it was underwhelming: ignore the story and hope it goes away. A few surrogates could defend Kerry in the press, but the campaign itself would maintain radio silence. It was the same strategy they would employ a few months later when the Swift Boat attacks began. The flaw in the approach, of course, was that ignoring the situation didn't mean the stories went away. It just ensured that the Kerry campaign forfeited any ability to influence the coverage. On one side of the rapidly accumulating media accounts was a handful of unusually conservative bishops...
While there was some relief at this week's Danish police action, the Intelligence Agency's swift arrest of the three men in the country's second-largest city, Aarhus, has raised legal questions. Two of the men, Tunisians ages 36 and 25, were to be administratively extradited, an extra-judicial shortcut that would avoid taking them through a trial. Meanwhile, the third man, a 40-year-old naturalized Dane of Moroccan origin, was released for lack of evidence, also without a trial. The security service explained that it had achieved its goal: to prevent a murder. It said that...