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Gainer says that since November, 11 Senators have received 17 threats that are being investigated, including the one against Murray. On the House side, there have been threats against nearly a dozen members - prompting Capitol police to hold a meeting with the Democratic caucus before Easter recess to encourage members...
Back in Clayton, many wonder if there are other Hutaree members still waiting to stage an attack on police. It's certainly a concern of Sheriff Jack Welsh of Lewanee County, where Clayton is located. "It's scary," he says. Welsh has tightened security at his department's buildings, telling...
By placing much of his writing in the past, and through the adroit subtlety of his magic-realist style, Mo Yan avoids stirring up the animosity of the country's ever vigilant censors any more than he needs to. Take his latest novel. With China's highly controversial one-child...
Such statements are at odds with fundamental respect for human life and dignity. They reflect a very disturbing larger trend in the debate about the Middle East—the dangerous dehumanizing of “the other side”—which, rather then leading us toward...
"We've got significant holes in our protection," Democratic Senator Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security panel, said in discussing the findings. "A key point here is that even though our banks have become more vigilant and they've created barriers against dirty money, foreign officials still...