(Can someone please tell me how to make cool-looking links? I would just write NY Times, and you could click on that, and it would really be http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/us/30settle.html )
U.S. Will Pay $2 Million to Lawyer Wrongly Jailed
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: November 30, 2006
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — The federal government agreed to pay $2 million Wednesday to an Oregon lawyer wrongly jailed in connection with the 2004 terrorist bombings in Madrid, and it issued a formal apology to him and his family.
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Brandon Mayfield was mistakenly linked to the Madrid bombings.
The unusual settlement caps a two-and-a-half-year ordeal that saw the lawyer, Brandon Mayfield, go from being a suspected terrorist operative to a symbol, in the eyes of his supporters, of government overzealousness in the war on terrorism.
“The United States of America apologizes to Mr. Brandon Mayfield and his family for the suffering caused” by his mistaken arrest, the government’s apology began. It added that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which erroneously linked him to the Madrid bombs through a fingerprinting mistake, had taken steps “to ensure that what happened to Mr. Mayfield and the Mayfield family does not happen again.”
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I got through the first sentence and already have a comment! So, I think this is how you make a better looking hyperlink. I am typing this a tiny bit differently from the way you really want to do it so it shows up without linking. Type < a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/us/30settle.html"> NYTimes< /a> and done, except when you do it you remove both spaces following the "<" signs and it will do this: NYTimes
I tried to do that in this comment but it keeps saying "Your HTML cannot be accepted." I think there is a missing piece or something.
Ugh, it just went off the page because it's all one line. Here's my last effort at an explanation:
Type all of the following except do it all without any returns separating the lines:
<
a
href= "http...(the whole link)">
Clever Link Label
<
/a>
If that doesn't help, then I give up. Also, I know what you're saying about 2 weeks for 2mil, but it would suck to not know the whole deal beforehand.
Thanks, Katie. Here goes, again:
NY Times
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