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The council made similar appointments when Patrick Cannon stepped down in 2014 after he was indicted on public corruption charges and in 2013 when Anthony Foxx left the city to become the federal secretary of transportation.
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When self-interest matures into corruption, the machine begins to strain.
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The team found that a near-infrared resolving power of at least 40 is the minimum needed to break that degeneracy.
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Some lambasted the degeneracy of the modern language.
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More broadly, this same chain of logic turns the Voting Rights Act into a zombie law, a perversion of its intended purpose that now mostly protects white Americans from any attempts to break their disproportionate control of voting machinery.
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The Fair Districts law is a partisan perversion walking around in a phony non-partisan trenchcoat.
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Donaldson, 63, was found guilty at Newry Crown Court of one count of rape, four counts of gross indecency and 13 indecent assault charges involving two girls from 1985 to 2008.
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Egypt has arrested and prosecuted gays and lesbians on the basis of vague indecency laws and has cracked down on any outward expressions of Pride, especially the waving of rainbow flags.
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At age 11, my favorite Broadway show was Follies – a classic preteen tale about the decay of female beauty and fading fame within an unscrupulous industry of vaudeville and burlesque.
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Their fix is to let the same model that does the reasoning also curate the knowledge, stored as human-readable notes and organized hierarchically with provenance and a lifecycle so stale plays decay rather than calcify.
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The children reportedly lived in squalor and weren’t enrolled in school.
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Reform and Restore are no doubt relying on support from pockets of deprivation, squalor and neglect in Makerfield.
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And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.
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A pitch-framing specialist with rare agility behind the plate, Wolters must coax pitchers through Coors Field and its occasional malefactions.
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Bardem is captivating and formidable, grinning with maniacal glee at his every act of depravity and the fear and anguish of his victims.
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The absurd part is that corruption and depravity are not crimes, and neither are adultery and masturbation.
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