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11.20.2008 9:00 pm

Greene County knows how to pick judges

An Election Day story with a happy ending has received little coverage in this part of the state. It deserves more.

On Nov. 4, voters in Greene County — the state’s 31st Judicial Circuit — approved a…

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08.13.2008 12:53 pm

“She is the most significant capture in five years”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Aafia Siddiqui in a graduation photo (left) and her FBI mugshot (right)This fascinating story from ABC News details the capture last month in Afghanistan of Dr. Aafia Siddique (or “Siddiqui”; Ar. عافية صديقي), the only woman ever named by the FBI as a top al-Qaeda operative.

Also significant was the “treasure trove” of…

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07.03.2008 9:00 pm

Saturday Short Takes: “Sculptured women”

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IS GOOD NUDE

Lest you think that the Iraq war, the economy and high gas prices are the only subjects on the political agenda, consider the plank that Robert Hurt, a delegate to the Texas Republican Party’s platform committee, wanted…

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04.22.2008 9:01 pm

Wednesday editorial: In re: John C. Yoo

John C. Yoo is a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley. From 2001 through 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. It was there that…

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