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- Blues and blood
Something is rotten in Beantown — and the stench is emanating from the local branch of the Department of Justice.
- Ring of fire
An ugly squabble between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the nation’s biggest phone companies has, in one nasty blow, recast the image of all the entities involved.
- The Gray Lady in shadow
Fearful that his presidency could be swept into the same historical dustbin as Richard Nixon’s, an unrepentant President George W. Bush seems intent on prosecuting the sources who leaked to the New York Times the details of his administration’s warrantless domestic spying.
- Oh, pardon me
Forget all the hoopla: George W. Bush is still going to have to issue a flurry of pardons at the end of his term.
- Sleazy? Yes. Criminal? Probably not.
As anyone attuned to sleaze and sensationalism is aware, the scandalmongers at the New York Post ’s Page Six are themselves engulfed in a scandal of tsunami-like proportions — at least in the world where reality is defined by People , Us , Star , and the National Enquirer .
- Naked in the public square
In the finest Puritan tradition, Middlesex District Attorney Gerald Leone is crusading to save Harvard Square from the shock and awe of the nude human form.
- Punish the mentally ill!
Officials in Maine attorney general Steven Rowe’s office recently made a legislative effort regarding mentally ill prisoners in a controversial way.
- The trials of Bernard Baran
This story originally appeared in the June 18, 2004 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
- Flashbacks: November 24, 2006
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Dan Peleschuk, Ian Sands, and Eva Wolchover.
- The bong show
Some state legislators are using the flawed logic of prohibition to try to outlaw another plant they fear kids are using as a legal substitute for pot.
- Letting the DA skate
In Boston’s sharp-elbowed political world, when anything goes wrong assigning blame usually takes top priority.
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