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Special thanks go to Vincenzo Kolchak and Patapsco Jack.
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At first blush, this shape-shifting view of criminal justice
may appear to be lunacy,
but take a gander at these two US stories of shape-shifting within the species.
Defense Waiting to Decide on Plea Bargain for Boy, 8–New York Times
Christopher Pittman, 15, who was 12 at the time of the November 2001 slayings of Joe Frank […]
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Please find entire story in The New York Times.
Image: (Robert Blake as Baretta) via michaelmanning.tv (Governor Blago) via huffingtonpost.com;
• Survey: Most Americans plan to cut back on holiday shopping
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From Times Online
November 5, 2008
World press reaction to Barack Obama’s victory
Paris, several international newspapers’ frontpages, the day after the victory of Democrat Barack Obama in US presidential election
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Headlines proclaiming Obama’s victory at an international newsstand in Paris
Kaya Burgess and Jenny Booth (Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images)
France
An editorial in the national daily Le Monde proclaims “Obama’s victory ushers […]
The New York Times
October 24, 2008
Editorial
Barack Obama for President
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government […]
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‘Misgivings?’
Are we now so PC that the word ‘prejudice’ is off the table?
Enlightened self-interest and simple observation should have made this race a stroll to a landslide, but the twin curses of stupidity and ignorance are making it a horse race.
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AP | RON FOURNIER and TREVOR TOMPSON | September 20, 2008 08:36 PM
Deep-seated […]
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Think Progress
Historians: Stop Bush/Cheney From Destroying Presidential Records
“Thirty-two of the nation’s leading historians have sent letters to congressional leaders calling on them to stregthen the Presidential Records Act (PRA). The effort, led by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and joined by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the National […]