Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school
Grads influential in Justice Dept.
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 8, 2007
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The title of the course was Constitutional Law, but the subject was sin. Before any casebooks were opened, a student led his classmates in a 10-minute devotional talk, completed with “amens,” […]
tired of the cheap suits…the forty-pound breast pockets… the bad complexions. But, mainly I was tired of the whining around the water cooler by guys who would just as soon fall asleep at their desks than empty a .38 into your gut.
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NRC staffers quietly become gun-toting cops
Typical cases involve falsified records, lost equipment, sleeping […]
JURISPRUDENCE
Justice’s Holy Hires
Opinion
By Dahlia Lithwick
Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page B02
Monica Goodling had a problem. As senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Justice Department liaison to the White House, she no longer seemed to know what the truth was. She also must have been increasingly unclear about who her superiors were. This didn’t […]
planes of existence in order to find more topics
with which to bore their acquaintances.
Belief in reincarnation tied to memory errors
Tendency could explain why some cling to implausible reincarnation claims
Updated: 12:53 p.m. ET April 6, 2007
People who believe they have lived past lives as, say, Indian princesses or battlefield commanders are more likely to make […]
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White House Looked Past Alarms on Kerik
Giuliani, Gonzales Pushed DHS Bid Forward
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Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page A01
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Pope: ‘Nothing positive’ from Iraq
By FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
VATICAN CITY - In an Easter litany of the world’s suffering,
Pope Benedict XVI lamented that “nothing positive” is happening in
Iraq and decried the unrest in Afghanistan and bloodshed in Africa and Asia.
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Thank you, Connecticut voters, for electing the Squeaker to the U.S. Senate. Why do I think he really doesn’t represent your hopes for America?
It’s not only his support of this miserable war, but also his backing down from calling real hearings on the Katrina fiasco, that makes the Squeaker roar.
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This was a Yahoo News headline this afternoon.
As usual, I jumped to the wrong conclusions.
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our present regime has placed us firmly on the wrong side of the looking glass. What are historians going to say about the biggest culprit to lift its head from the ooze? Their analysis of the press will demonstrate the ridiculous notion that tight-fisted, information monopolies were as bad as Thomas Jefferson had believed. The […]
White House Watch by Dan Froomkin
Cheney Sticks to His Delusions
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, April 6, 2007; 1:20 PM
Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even President Bush has backed off his earlier inflammatory assertions about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
Please find the piece here.
it would have been a guest appearance on Thai Bandstand.
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In the photograph below, see if you can find King Farouk’s 1959 Cadillac, Thailand’s King Bhumibol and a pack of King Sano cigarettes.
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but someone at the top must have told him that his surveillance photos were inconclusive.
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Did the FBI Flub a Major Terror Investigation?
April 06, 2007 10:48 AM
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Vic Walter and Justin Rood Report:
FBI agents downplayed evidence of burgeoning cooperation between a domestic white supremacist group and an Islamic terrorist supporter, documents reviewed by ABC News show.
By curtailing […]
Exclusive: Shake Up at the U.S. Attorney’s Office
Last Edited: Thursday, 05 Apr 2007, 9:35 PM CDT
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MINNEAPOLIS — It’s a major shakeup at the offices of new U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose.Four of her top staff voluntarily demoted themselves Thursday, fed up with Paulose, who, after just months on the job, has earned a reputation […]
Filipino devotees crucify, whip themselves
Lenten ritual goes on despite opposition by Catholic leaders in Philippines
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April 6: Dozens of Catholics in the Philippines defied religious leaders by celebrating Good Friday with self-flagellation and re-enactments of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Updated: 5:57 a.m. ET April 6, 2007
SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines - Seven devotees were nailed to […]
Ford CEO: $28M for 4 months work
Former Boeing exec got $18.5 million bonus, almost $9 million in stock and options and base salary at annual $2 million rate, according to proxy.
April 5 2007: 6:31 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Struggling Ford Motor Co., which posted a record $12.7 billion net loss in 2006, gave its […]
of Robert Walker in Stangers On A Train.
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Le Reseau–Le Train ‘Tres Grande Vitesse’
April 4, 2007
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Mon Dieu! So fast it was terrifying
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Our correspondent was the only British journalist on board the French TGV train as it hit 357mph on yesterday’s record-breaking ride into the unknown undefined
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W seems content to allow New Orleans to fall into a paroxysm of violence. As a pal in Chicago had predicted, we have our own Baghdad on the Mississippi.
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A Citizens’ Army Grows in New Orleans
By Russell McCulley/New Orleans
Stephanie Pedro, 27, is no Paul Kersey, the New York architect-turned-vigilante Charles Bronson […]
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Representative Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican, said the Shorja market was “like a normal outdoor market in Indiana.” –Pool Photo by Sabah Arar
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Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, in baseball cap,visited the Shorja market in Baghdad on Sunday with Gen. David H. Petraeus, left, the commander of the American forces in Iraq, accompanied by […]
April 2, 2007
Some Hospitals Call 911 to Save Their Patients
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Brian Harkin for The New York Times
The West Texas Hospital near Abilene. Nurses there called 911 because no doctors were present to treat Steve Spivey when he had breathing problems after spinal surgery.
By REED ABELSON
Should a hospital be able to handle a medical emergency?
The answer may […]
“Giuliani To Media: Lay Off My Wife“
Former NYC Mayor Says He Can Raise $100 Million
Apr 2, 2007 7:38 pm US/Eastern
Lou Young
Reporting
(CBS) NEW YORK Several candidates for president are on a fast pace for fundraising. Democrat Hillary Clinton has set a record and Republican Rudy Giuliani isn’t far behind.
But it’s what Giuliani said Monday that will […]
France’s V150 Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) is seen here at the “Reims Bezannes” station on the new high-speed line built between Paris and the eastern city of Strasbourg, on the eve of an attempt to break its own world speed record.(AFP/Francois Nascimbeni)
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PARIS (AFP) - France’s […]
to spin the dross of the Iraq misadventure into gold. At this time, it seems logical to assume that more Americans believe the old lady actually lives in a shoe with countless children than accept the Regime’s PR Machine’s soporific melodies from which many broadcast news outlets are only now awakening.
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April 1, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Elizabeth Edwards for President
By FRANK RICH
ELIZABETH EDWARDS’S choice to stay in the political arena despite a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know about Elizabeth Edwards. People admired her before she was ill for the same reasons they admire her now. She comes across as honest, smart […]
He reminds me of Wilmer the Gunzel in THE MALTESE FALCON. While the homicidal youngster’s independent study was a treatise on George Santayana’s predilection for what we now call hollow point slugs, Wilmer hated the concept of “crowding.”
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U.S. toll in March is twice Iraq forces
By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military […]
to lose faith in an embarrassing regime which has Rove, Libby, Cheney and Tin Horn Torquemada at the center. Nevertheless, he’ll have plenty of time to hook onto the Hillary Wagon.
April 1, 2007 Ex-Aide Says He’s Lost Faith in Bush
By JIM RUTENBERG
New York Times
AUSTIN, Tex., March 29 — In 1999, Matthew Dowd became a […]