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Warnings of tragedy were there but ignored
Some 14-year-old boys look like men. Check out a sophomorefootball game between Deerfield and New Trier high schools, or asophomore basketball game between King and Manley, and you'll see14-year-old boys who are over 6 feet tall and weigh more than 200pounds. Some probably shave every day.
Konerak Sinthasomphone was not such a 14-year-old. He was awispy 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighed slightly more than 100 pounds.Konarek looked more like a Little Leaguer than a man of legal age.
But three Milwaukee police officers didn't see it that way.After responding to a 911 call at 2 a.m. on May 27 from a neighborwho reported seeing a "naked . . . bruised up . . . beaten …
God's My Investment Adviser: Faith-Based Funds Doing Well.(Wealth Management)
Byline: Ruthie Ackerman
Jay Peroni had been a financial adviser for more than seven years when a client asked him a question he could not answer: "Can I expect God to bless my investments if I'm investing in things that oppose his word?"
Peroni, the author of "The Faith-Based Millionaire" and president of Values First Advisors, was stumped. His search for an answer prompted him to interview people of various faiths who had been financially successful, to find out some of the key ingredients of their investing philosophy.
"Through this whole discovery," he said, "I was able to realize that you can keep your faith central in your life and your …
ASHCROFT TAKES REINS AT JUSTICE.(MAIN)
Byline: MARK HELM Times Union Washington bureau
WASHINGTON -- A sharply divided Senate confirmed John Ashcroft for attorney general Thursday, with a heavy majority of Democrats voting against his nomination and sending a strong warning to the White House.
Ashcroft won the support of all 50 Senate Republicans and eight Democrats.
After the vote, he promised he would ``confront injustice by leading a professional Justice Department that is free from politics, that is uncompromisingly fair.''
Although they failed to block the nomination, Democratic leaders hailed the 58-42 vote, saying it sent a signal to President Bush to proceed carefully on Supreme Court and other judicial nominations.
By gathering 42 votes, Democrats showed Bush they could get enough votes to sustain a filibuster in the future to try to defeat any hardline conservative nominees, particularly for the high court. It takes 60 votes to end a …
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