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...other members of The Southern Courier staff were just journalists doing their job by reporting objectively. But to people like Howard, stuck in a place and time mired in violence, those reporters were proof that alongside hatred there can also be hope...
Messer acknowledges that his law is no panacea. He's fond of saying he can't legislate away teenage mistakes. And indeed, Kentucky, Georgia and West Virginia have had similar laws on the books for a number of years, but critics say there's no proof that the laws have worked. Still, he says, "some kids are dropping out because it's easy and it's O.K. That is going to change...
...Monday. Changes to the local T stop include the addition of a new elevator and the replacement of the current elevator, Greater Boston Legal Services Senior Attorney Taramattie Doucette said. The settlement, filed in 2002 by GBLS, represented 10 plaintiffs with various disabilities. The plaintiffs cited personal experiences as proof that there was an imminent need for improvement in public transportation. Plaintiff Joan Golden of Medford, Mass., who uses a wheelchair, said she sustained a serious injury when a lift she was on came out from under her. Despite the experience, “I never realized how serious...
...life, but he refused offers of special protection from both local police and the British. Tracked down to the remote, mountainous area of western County Donegal where he was living in self-imposed exile, in a run-down cottage with no electricity or running water, Donaldson became proof of the old notion that the only way for an informer to live is looking over his shoulder...
...cable puts a new perspective on Qadhafi's renunciation of his nuclear weapons program in December 2003, after starting talks on the matter around the time U.S. bombs were beginning to fall on Baghdad in March. At the time, the Bush administration hailed Qadhafi's move as proof that its tough tactics against countries with weapons of mass destruction was working. But this cable shows that Qadhafi was gravely concerned about American intentions in the new global war on terrorism at least 18 months before the Iraq...