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...CONN.) The millions spent on his PSAs helped prompt a state law banning such ads by candidates within five months of an election. His recent ubiquitous mass-transit campaign ("Your Ride's Here") irked critics who recall that in his early years in office Rowland advocated cutbacks in rail services...
...defendants rail against the injustice of their lot and then proceed with the trial. These tribunals, after all, are not about “equal justice under the law”—for there is no law. The tribunals are a politically motivated means to punish those who have committed terrible crimes for which they are not otherwise accountable...
...from several temporary surface storage facilities around the country. These facilities are an easier target than the small amounts of waste hidden on trains or trucks crossing to Nevada. Also, the radioactivity of nuclear waste is so reduced before transport that radiation released from the much-feared truck or rail accident would not endanger anyone who simply walked away from the accident...
Local color adds tremendously to the novel; rather than set the tale in a generic Anytown, U.S.A., Montgomery places the action square in Baltimore. The reader will be delighted by small details like the Light Rail transit line and Dick’s Sporting Goods in Hunt Valley Mall (where one can actually buy paintball gear). Institutions and landmarks like the Baltimore Orioles and the Gunpowder River are not simply bandied about to lend an air of authenticity. Attention to such detail is crucial, as Montgomery uses his familiarity with fisherman’s lingo and military life to good...
This past Saturday, seventeen male members of the two organizations (and one intrepid FM reporter) took the Commuter Rail and one overcrowded van to reach their paintball holy land. The CI and HSS members were able to put their philosophical discussions to the side for a few hours once little balls of liquid began whizzing past their heads and the adrenaline started flowing. “Nothing like ducking crossfire to foster male bonding,” said Gowda...