Nickles insists, ‘I am not a hatchet man’

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Who knew Attorney General Peter Nickles was so well-schooled in classic literature?

His letter sent yesterday to the D.C. Council was meant to belittle and defang the lawmakers’ attempt to block a settlement payment to one of Mayor Adrian Fenty’s buddies. He began with a literary allusion:

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