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...Francisco amended its sanctuary law in 1992, removing protections for criminal suspects. But in practice, police and justice departments would continually fail to turn over suspects to federal authorities. When the city's juvenile-court system was caught flying Hondurans convicted of dealing cocaine back to their home country last May - instead of contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities to have them federally deported - Mayor Gavin Newsom changed the policy and told police officers that they should turn suspected criminals, even juveniles, over to authorities. "That policy was wrong," says Nathan Ballard, the mayor's director of communications...
...swirl of allegations of backroom dealing and the dismal spectacle surrounding the confidence vote. Singh's coalition government may be secure for now, but the Congress Party will face another test next year in parliamentary elections. Politicians can only hope India's long-suffering voters are willing to turn a blind eye to the messy foibles of their elected representatives one more time...
...things didn't turn out as the Administration planned. In 2004, Swift, Hamdan's Pentagon-appointed lawyer, persuaded his client to reject the government's tentative offer for a guilty plea--20 years' imprisonment in exchange for full cooperation, including testifying at the military commissions of other detainees. Together with a young constitutional-law professor named Neal Katyal, Swift built a defense that delayed Hamdan's military tribunal for years as it gradually made its way through the courts. Hamdan's time at Guantánamo was turbulent. Officials characterized him as a problematic prisoner, a rabble rouser who turns every...
...inversion of the usual '60s-retrospective equation (J.F.K. + space = optimism). But what makes Mad Men great TV is how it subverts our expectations. Thus the philandering Don turns out to be Peggy's biggest backer in the sexist office. Thus Peggy in turn is not a persecuted saint but competent, focused--and sometimes cold. And thus a surprise twist in the second episode reveals Pete to be both opportunistic and sympathetic...
...acres of dusty ranchland behind barbed-wire fences and iron gates, his community would enjoy the fabled live-and-let-live world of the American frontier. After all, this was a wide-open land where good neighbors were neighborly but not nosy, where a man could turn a page and start anew with few questions raised about his past. "They thought they were safe behind those walls and that Texas would never mess with them," says Randy Mankin, the editor of the Eldorado Success, the small-town newspaper that has chronicled events at the nearby FLDS ranch from the compound...