“Scrooge was better than his word…He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew…”–Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol This Christmas, along with reading Dickens or watching George Bailey and Charlie Brown, an unlikely source can help cha...
Three stories dominated: once again, the omnipresent Orange Menace, this time for a federal indictment; the east coast choking on wildfire smoke; and, Natalee Holloway’s alleged killer being extradited from Peru to the US. As to the first, why is ANYONE wasting time and energy following the...
“Thelawsuitwas settled for an undisclosed sum, with the woman agreeing not to make any public comment.” Noun ▲ A declaration of fault or blame against another Find more words! Another word forOpposite ofMeaning ofRhymes withSentences withFind word formsTranslate from EnglishTranslate to English...
Commentary: Notice the warning not totransfigurethe holy word of God. It is as if God knew (or a talented and cleaver phantom ghost writer) the Mormons would try to transfigure this warning when they discovered it so this is worded as if God warned them not to do so right at the sta...
— On August 14, Trump and 18 others were named in a 98-page indictment at the Fulton county courthouse. — On August 24, Trump surrendered at Fulton county jail, where he became the first former US president to ever have his mugshot taken. He was released on a $200,000 bond. — ...
Federal investigators working on criminal indictments and a very few conscientious packers were willing to pay stiff fees to have the pollen in their honey analyzed for country of origin. That complex, multi-step analysis is done by fewer than five commercial laboratories in the world. But, Cust...
"If the indictment is brought -- ‘if’ is still the right word -- the standard will be proof beyond a reasonable doubt. That's what the Justice Department has to decide before it brings the indictment because it cannot lose, and the standard has to be no indictment u...
This is a dereliction of duty, even understanding the constraints of word counts (this piece runs some 1,600 words, which is long for the Times) and of what the editors of the Times will permit to be printed. Harris is a menace. If one must vote for a menace for the same reasons ...
Even if Hayes suspected the veracity of Mombidi’s word, he knew from firsthand experience that Studd and Buxton, at the very least, tolerated drunkenness among the natives: “Both these men sneered at me the first day I saw them for remarking at the sodden condition of the entire Mangb...
Years ago, that word (“felon”) was fraught with stigma, a stigma that stuck for a lifetime, but it mostly stuck to Black and Brown people,notthe rare Great White Defendant. More than 20 years ago, people impacted by the criminal legal system pushed back on the various stigmatizing te...