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...James Frey, on the night of October 24, 1992, pull up outside a bar in Granville, Ohio, in a white Mercury? Was he drunk and high on crack at the time? Did he jump the curb, bump a cop with his car, and then get dragged out screaming and beaten up by the police? Did he then go to rehab, write a book about it, inspire millions of readers and make a ton of money...
...We’ve set a new bar,” said Lue. But “we need to resource these courses adequately. The course is stinking expensive...
...some point during CBS's chatty dramedy Love Monkey, a female focus group (i.e., my wife) asked me, "Do men really talk like that?" I don't recall if the question came when some strangers in a bar discussed why men are never content in relationships, or when one character called a Tori Amos CD "vagina music...
...energies on the lesser and easier-to-prove charge of "honest services mail fraud," for which they have to show only that a lawmaker has acted in his personal interest or that of another individual but not of his constituents in return for improper gain. That lowering of the bar for criminal-corruption cases is sending shudders from the Capitol to the lobbying corridor of K Street. And none of that even begins to address the question of whether those who dined, traveled and socialized with Abramoff might have violated Congress's own loophole-ridden rules that prohibit, for instance...
...mail records, on the other hand, can be obtained with a National Security Letter (NSL) authorized by a senior FBI official. Criticism of these measures has focused on the lack of regular judicial review over these information requests and the “gag rule” said to bar recipients of such requests from ever speaking about them. Opponents of these provisions also say that the standard under which records can be demanded—relevance to a terrorism or intelligence investigation—is too broad and could potentially be abused. According to Casey, the revised version...