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...shocked and appalled that Bernanke was named Person of the Year. In my opinion, he set up the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and rewarded bad behavior and business practices of corporations that should have been left to fail...
Hijackings in the U.S. grew rarer in the '90s, and the ranks dwindled again; by 2001, there were reportedly just 33 U.S. air marshals left. Following 9/11, Congress reportedly pushed that number to 4,000, but as the years passed, skepticism returned. One critic, Representative John Duncan Jr. of Tennessee, noted that since 2001, the agency has averaged slightly more than four arrests a year--at a cost per arrest of around $200 million. There were no air marshals aboard Flight 253 on Dec. 25, but that may not have mattered: civilians, after all, took down the would-be bomber...
...After we left the hospice, Lombard drove eight blocks east of the stadium to the notorious Maitland Hotel. Police had identified the Maitland as a base of drug- and human-trafficking operations. HIV-positive survivors described how traffickers used gang rape, drug provision, sleep deprivation and torture to "break" new children on the fifth floor; the fourth floor featured an illegal abortion clinic. On other floors, as many as four girls slept on a single mattress. Police raided the Maitland in 2008 and shut the place down last January. Traffickers had been tipped off about the final raid, yet officials...
...Crimson got on the scoreboard. Co-captain Kathryn Farni fed a pass to junior Liza Ryabkina, who put a shot on goal. Although Colgate goalie Lisa Plenderleith stopped the initial shot, Ryabkina picked up her own rebound, skated around the net, and lifted her second shot into the high left corner...
Buesser gave the Crimson a three-goal advantage eight minutes into the second frame. Rookie center Jillian Dempsey took a pass from classmate Kelsey Romatoski and brought the puck up the left boards. Dempsey found her linemate at the right post, and Buesser tapped it in for a 3-0 lead...