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Consider: in the first few minutes of the two-hour pilot, Scofield, a structural engineer, holds up a bank, although he has no criminal record or need for money; waits for the police to show up; pleads no contest to armed robbery; asks to be sent to the same maximum-security hellhole as his sib; and, the better to look the part, gets a massive tattoo all over his torso. That tattoo might as well read, HELLO, I AM GOING TO BREAK MY WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED BROTHER OUT OF JAIL...
...document the Sunnis could sign," said the director of an international NGO involved in the constitutional process. But if the Sunnis decided not to support it but still participated in the referendum-if only to vote it down-"that would be great because then it becomes a democratic contest over the rule...
...scandals that have struck the administration of Ohio Governor Bob Taft have reached a new milestone: speculation that he should resign. Today Taft pleaded no-contest in Franklin County Municipal Court, and a judge ordered him to pay a $4000 fine after being charged with four misdemeanors for failing to disclose, as state law requires, golf outings paid for by others...
...Even before Wednesday's criminal charges, Taft-the great grandson of President William Howard Taft-was in no danger of winning a popularity contest. His approval numbers had sunk to 17%, the lowest of any governor in the U.S., and he was roundly chided for inept, ineffective leadership. Even without the ethical and legal charges hanging over his head, the two-term governor, who beat his badly underfunded Democratic opponent by five points in 2002, has only another 17 months to serve because of term limits...
...while it's no contest when a bear meets an unarmed human, the same goes in reverse when humans move en masse into bear habitat. That's why the grizzly, which roamed the American West by the tens of thousands before white settlers arrived--and which still has a population of several thousand in Alaska and Canada--eventually saw its numbers dwindle to just a few isolated populations of a few hundred bears apiece in the contiguous 48 states of the U.S. It's also why the bear was formally put under the protection of the federal Endangered Species...