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 He pulled the stolen sedan off the freeway in Tonopah,about 50 miles west of Phoenix. By this point,at least one local television channel was airing the pursuit,and so was Fox News. Shepherd Smith sat silent at the anchor desk during the final moments of the pursuit as the helicopter pilot,in what’s become the traditional fashion,provided play by play of events below. Romero was seen getting out of the car,running through the desert,stumbling into a brushy area,and finally lifting a pistol to his head and pulling the trigger. Smith,visibly agitated,could be seen and heard just after repeating to a producer: "get off it,get off it,get off it,get off it."But the promise of a grisly or dramatic ending is what gives the police pursuit its power.
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 [Financial Times]Kate Upton's Animal-Themed Photo Shoot: Carine Roitfeld's second fashion spread as Harper's Bazaar's new global fashion director features shots of Kate Upton flanked by an array of wild animals like baby tigers and monkeys. This isn't the first time Upton has posed with animals either: She held armful of baby chicks on the first cover of Roitfeld's CR Fashion Book. The Bazaar shoot,titled "The Animal Nursery," was photographed by Sebastian Faena and also features models Irina Shayk,Senait Gidey,Tilda Lindstam,and Soo Joo Park. [Harper's Bazaar]The Ultimate Anti-Thatcher Playlist In his 1988 song "Margaret on the Guillotine," Morrissey wondered when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,then in her final stretch as party leader,would make his "dream real" and.
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 Get Newsweek on your TabletKate Really Shows Off her Baby Bump At Last! Britain's Duchess of Cambridge meets scouts as she attends the National Review of Queen's Scouts at Windsor Castle,near London Sunday,April 21,2013. (Pool photo by Olivia Harris,via AP)We got to see Kate looking really pregnant for the first time yesterday,when she did a meet and greet with boy scouts at Windsor Castle,standing in for the Queen who was celebrating her actual 87th birthday privately (her official birthday,in June,is the big ceremonial affair marked by the pomp-heavy ceremony known as the Trooping of The Colour). Britain's Duchess of Cambridge meets scouts as she attends the National Review of Queen's Scouts at Windsor Castle,near London Sunday,April 21,2013.
 Instead,readers are given the impression that Carr verified the information himself.Carr claims he used the Committee to Protect Journalists as a "primary source," even though he didn't cite the organization. The problem is,if you check the CPJ website,it never independently confirmed that the terrorists killed in the Israeli strike were journalists. It clearly noted that it was citing outside news organizations,which means it wasn't a primary source in this case.Bloomberg is New York's ‘Little Berlusconi,' Siegel Says Newsweek and The Daily Beast senior editor Harry Siegel and Daily Download managing editor Ben Jacobs broke down the "wonderful,strange,bizarre,quasi-corrupt world of New York politics" in a new post on Bloggingheads.
" He is as forthright in his condemnation of the bombings as would,no doubt,those other doctors who successfully saved the younger Tsarnaev bother,Dzhokhar."I can't find any justification," Webb says.But Webb is just as willing to do what he feels is required of him as an imam. The family only need ask him. He will respond as a coroner does when called to duty."The person who had to do the autopsy," Webb says.Meanwhile,Tamerlan's mother in particular should stop suggesting that the police used excessive force. Tamerlan and his brother executed a cop as he sat in his car and then led other cops on a chase,throwing explosives at them and setting off a pressure-cooker bomb and firing 80 rounds.
Wielding chainsaws was admittedly not their strong suit. But with no more than a couple of laptops,an air card,and some pol-organizing experience between them,they got a Google voice hotline and the Internet involved in Monson’s recovery—spreading hyper-local information about victims’ needs in real time. Still,Ciatria was baffled,"Surely,in the United States we can’t be the first to organize (a community) post-disaster." Why weren’t there tools connecting people with needs to people with aid,she wondered? It seemed reasonable to expect someone to walk up to them and say,‘OK,this has happened to you,now this is what you do.’There was nothing easy about starting their startup. Mistakes were inevitable, goyard wallet like not realizing the need to keep track of volunteers’ hours for FEMA data-reporting requirements.
 Describe the case the Taliban had made in Garmser before coalition forces' arrival in 2006,and the strengths they had.I remember speaking with Taliban mullahs: black beards,white turbans,Arabic inflection to their Pashto. Many were good men,trying to help their community. The Taliban controlled Garmser from 1994 to 2001 and then again from 2006 to 2008. During those times,they tried to bring fair Islamic justice to the people andgive land to the poorer tribes. Their devotion to Islamespecially enhanced their credibility. One former Taliban judge and well-educated Islamic scholar told me: "The people had many problems ... I believed the Taliban regime could bring them peace. The local villagers asked me to become a judge with the Taliban.
Eschewing melodrama in favor of the lean style for which Scandinavian cinema is celebrated,Lindholm truly has us on the edge of our seats until the final seconds—shot,naturally enough,in an underground parking lot.Lookout,Mitch If you haven’t seen the video by Alison Lundergan Grimes,the Kentucky Democrat who is challenging Mitch McConnell,please give it a gander as soon as you can. It is amazingly good. Smart. It’s really smart on several levels. The smart money in July 2013 says she’ll make a nice run but in the end Mitch will outmuscle her and win by seven or so points. But I see intelligence in this video that suggests that just maybe in this case,the smart money won’t be so smart.

He pulled the stolen sedan off the freeway in Tonopah