"Clearly, fair concerns have been raised," wrote Judge Denny Chin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
"Fund-raising, writing letters, doing budgets, renting music, hiring personnel, dealing with recordings, with performing rights.
They sip sticky, sweet espresso between matches and play poker with 10-cent raises, writing their debts on a ripped paper towel tacked to a wall.
In that, the return of Manu Ginobili proved critical if a little hair-raising, writes Buck Harvey of The San Antonio Express-News.
"Bathos, bawdy and the absurd – a combination of uncommon felicity, as if Jane Austen were rewriting Terry Pratchett: snorts and giggles plus elegant eyebrow-raising," wrote Ian Sansom.
Clearly fair concerns have been raised," he wrote in a two-page order.
"How many restaurant managers are besieged by customers worried about how the meat they are eating is raised?" he wrote.
The threat level was not raised, he wrote, despite the urging of Attorney General John Ashcroft and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department needed to figure out the "potential legal questions" that the request raised, Mulvaney wrote.
Outside the prison walls, the David Wong Support Committee formed, and people who came to believe in the cause raised money, wrote letters and made speeches on college campuses.
