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Federal prosecutors allege that Byrne beat Trombly without provocation, breaking his jaw, and later instructed several BPD officers to lie to investigators looking into the incident...
...after hearing of Trombly’s claim that the officer had broken his jaw—a story which he said he thought was false at the time—he reassured the officers and advised them against spreading rumors. He insisted that he never told them to lie...
Dean has been running for more than a year, but his campaign did not crystallize into a full-blown phenomenon until the last 10 days of June. It's instructive to look at those days because it is possible to see both the perils and the potential that lie ahead (see box). He repeatedly took risks--from publicly challenging his donors to ante up more money to putting up early ads in Iowa--and showed that what might kill another politician in the big leagues seems only to make him stronger. Even his rather mealy-mouthed performance with Tim Russert...
Apparently it was worse for a President to lie to the American people about having sex with an intern than it was for a President to lie to the American people, justifying a war on the basis of forged documents about uranium products. One lie led to impeachment; I am afraid the other lie will lead to re-election. CAROLYN MAKI Midlothian...
...Sometimes the past is too strong for words. It won't lie quietly under the bonds of syntax and grammar. Marjane Satrapi's childhood in revolutionary Iran?a childhood hijacked by religious fundamentalism, that witnessed the imposition of the veil, that saw the legal age of marriage for girls lowered to nine?is almost too full of trauma to be confined to a prose narrative. Satrapi powerfully captures the Ayatollahs' tyranny by rendering it in the spare, black- and-white images of a graphic novel, much as Art Spiegelman did in Maus, his comic-strip version of the Holocaust...