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Water is also the top local story at the Washington Post --specifically the Maryland governor's reaction to the drought there, new regulations that will shut off lawn sprinklers and end unrequested drinking water in restaurants.
The shallow analysis: The case was open and shut, since Kevorkian taped the incident (in which he administered a lethal injection to a terminally ill man, with the man's consent) and had the tape aired on 60 Minutes . The sophisticated analysis: Kevorkian tried to make the trial a political debate over assisted suicide, but the judge and jury refused to go along.
Pitcher Roger Clemens shut out the Braves into the eighth inning, leading the Yanks to a 4-1 win.
A monopoly becomes illegal only when the company exercising it uses that monopoly to shut out competitors in other markets, either through coercion or by subsidizing low, competition-killing prices in that market.
To Shut Embassies To Fix Security"--cuts too much, with its suggestion that all embassies are being affected.