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About 30 members of the Boston College Graduate Employees Union (BCGEU-UAW) first walked out of the annual President’s Address in Robsham Theater before carrying out a planned picket outside Pops on the Heights Friday night. […]

There are numerous slant comments on literature in The Plains. The filmmaker’s life story is comprehensible to the plainsmen because it’s ‘devoid of events or achievements’, like their own canon (and Murnane’s books). We hear of ‘those few fools who appear every decade or so urging us to set our passions free and to speak frankly before our women’ and ‘the preposterous fallacy that we have lately banished from our plains: the specious argument for the artist’s concerning himself with the distribution of material wealth or the workings of government or the release of men from the constraints of morality in the name of a universal licence masking itself as Freedom’. Economics and politics have no place in Murnane’s world; licentiousness isn’t possible for his characters. But his previous books do contain disclosures of passions, if not frank discussion of them. (One consequence of this for Murnane has been the estrangement of his uncle Louis, his father’s youngest brother and his own closest horse-racing pal, who in another fictional rendering disapproves of his nephew’s enthusiasm for free verse.) The filmmaker is sponsored by a landowner who gives him access to a grand library and unlimited time to make his film about the ‘Eternal Plane’. It’s too much freedom. He spends a decade leafing through books and contemplating Time – the other plane. But in the end, his film unbegun and unfinished, he gives his patron what he wants, a blank screen with the lights out, a vision of the plains covered in the ‘Great Darkness’.

As authorities searched the grounds for Madeleine, her panicked family and their friends also tried in vain to find their little girl.

In a reversal of standard Washington Post practice, Farhi waits until the back-end paragraphs to present the left-liberal side of the story. It consists mainly of Dean Baquet, top editor at the New York Times, explaining why he’s “comfortable with our coverage” of the fake collusion story.

Police went to claim they believed Madeleine died in the apartment and her parents faked her abduction to cover up the death. They also claimed the Tapas Seven aided in the coverup, which they said the meal at the restaurant and the checks on the McCann children were a part of. 

Law enforcement noticed a latch lock on the sliding glass window in the room, which the McCanns thought but weren’t sure they had locked at the start of their stay. Officials later learned cleaners would often open the shutters and windows in the rooms they were tending to air them out, so it was impossible to determine if the window was or was not locked that night.

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None of the Tapas Seven were ever declared a suspect or "arguido" in the case, and all cooperated willingly and voluntarily with the investigation.

Rosann Kovalcik, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited in Grosse Pointe Woods and a board member of Michigan Audubon and Detroit Audubon, said there are feeders that automatically close if a mammal, such as a squirrel, tries to use them, and that can reduce mess. In addition, she said homeowners can discourage rats by using bird feed treated with hot pepper, which doesn’t bother the birds.

“Nothing Trump is accused of from now on by the press will be believed by huge chunks of the population, a group that (perhaps thanks to this story) is now larger than his original base,” Taibbi wrote. “As Baker notes, a full 50.3 percent of respondents in a poll conducted this month said they agree with Trump the Mueller probe is a ‘witch hunt.’”

“There has been a consistent pattern throughout #Russiagate,” Taibbi noted. “Step one: salacious headline. Step two: days or weeks later: news emerges the story is shakier than first believed. Step three (in the best case) involves the story being walked back or retracted by the same publication.”