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...work has been crucial in ensuring that racially motivated assaults are classified as hate crimes, rather than mere hooliganism, and therefore warrant harsher sentences. He was gunned down as he was preparing for another trial, this one on charges of inciting racial hatred and violence involving a regional branch of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity (RNE) party in nearby Novgorod. Police cite Girenko's expert advice as the most likely motive for the hit, but are tight-lipped about possible suspects. No arrests have yet been made. "Pity they didn't knock off that bastard sooner," says Alexei...
Byrd, the third-longest serving member of Congress in American history, berated Bush and his subordinates for overstepping the traditional powers of the executive branch and undermining intragovernmental checks by imposing unprecedented levels of secrecy on their misdeeds...
...nature with those dispositions which fit him for society ... his mind is perfectible to a degree of which we cannot as yet form any conception. It is impossible for a man who takes a survey of what is already known, not to see what an immensity in every branch of science yet remains to be discovered, & that too of articles to which our faculties seem adequate...
Instead, the feud worsened. In early 1793, a Virginia Congressman named William Branch Giles began to harry Hamilton with resolutions ordering him to produce, on short deadlines, stupendous amounts of Treasury data. With prodigious bursts of energy, Hamilton complied with those inhuman demands, foiling his opponents. Jefferson then committed an unthinkable act. He secretly drafted a series of anti-Hamilton resolutions for Giles, including one that read, "Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury has been guilty of maladministration in the duties of his office and should, in the opinion of Congress, be removed from his office by the President...
...Williams and DiGiovanni said that the prominent storefront is wasted on another large bank branch opening in the square. Fleet, Cambridge Savings Bank and Cambridge Trust already have large branches open on the corner of JFK St. and Mass...