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...Cardona, 32, is a military policeman from Fullerton, Calif., who served in 2003 and 2004 at Abu Ghraib as a dog handler. After pictures of Cardona using the animal to threaten Iraqis were made public, he was convicted in May of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault, the equivalent of a felony in the U.S. civilian justice system. The prosecution demanded prison time, but a military judge instead imposed a fine and reduction in rank. Though Cardona was not put behind bars, he was also required to serve 90 days of hard labor at Ft. Bragg...
...totally unproven. Allen campaign officials grabbed the man, knocked him to the ground and dragged him out of the event, leading Stark - who aides to Democratic challenger Jim Webb say has no affiliation with the campaign - to e-mail dozens of Washington reporters about the incident and threaten to sue Allen campaign officials...
...Shut Up! A curious case may mean that debt collectors can't threaten to sue their targets unless they really mean...
...course, don't see it that way. Fischer has said it's great publicity for her endeavors. And Ewing sees her point. "It's hard not to respect people who have deep passions," she says. Neither she nor Grady can entirely fathom why the Evangelicals feel so profoundly threatened in a largely tolerant U.S. They speculate that casual, unthinking secularism, represented by everything from the TV schedule to Wal-Mart's groaning shelves, makes these Evangelicals feel encircled and unheeded despite their relative prosperity. The directors also wonder, as Grady puts it, "if these parents can hold back the tide...
...that some students think Chinese Ba—the largest Chinese class this fall with 104 undergraduates—is an “easy A.” “We don’t want to create unfair competition, we don’t want to threaten them [non-heritage students] away,” said Feng, who is also a professor of the practice of Chinese language. Feng added that he is awaiting approval for a track specifically geared to heritage students. The program is also looking to establish more preceptor positions, which are currently lacking...