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...antiheroes who survived Tabloid, Pete Bondurant and Ward Littell, are in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, to do damage control on the J.F.K. "whack" that they helped plan on the orders of their Mob overlords. Also flying into the city that afternoon is a Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow Jr., who has been paid $6,000 by casino operators in his hometown to kill a black pimp named Wendell Durfee. Bondurant and Littell strongarm Jack Ruby into shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, but Tedrow blows his murderous assignment during a fit of conscience. His scruples will diminish when he hooks...
Problems arise, according to Barral, when a trauma or malfunction puts the mechanism out of alignment. "An organ that loses its mobility can throw the whole organism out of whack," he says. "Our task is to help it get back on track." To that end, Barral, 56, has spent nearly three decades developing the therapeutic technique he calls visceral manipulation...
...Besides, the courts have been kind to Bush when he's needed them, and the lawyers - led by a strange-bedfellow coalition of the ACLU, the conservative Southeast Legal Foundation, and whomever McConnell hires - are lining up to take a whack at the constitutionality of whatever Bush signs...
...Tennessee Republican Bill Frist of the non-severability amendment, argued that McCain-Feingold's three main components - the soft-money ban, the raising of hard-money limits, and Snowe-Jeffords - all went together. Fellow defector Robert Torricelli concurred: Without any one of the three, the system goes out of whack...
...Third, there's the courts. Severable or not, the lawyers - led by a bedfellow coalition of the ACLU, the conservative Southeast Legal Foundation, and whomever McConnell hires - are lining up to take a whack at the constitutionality of whatever Bush signs into law. One lawyer, James Bopp Jr., has been doing this sort of thing on the state level for years, and he's got 30 knockouts in 33 decisions...