Word: alberto
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...members of Congress angered by Alberto Gonzales' recent appearances on Capitol Hill, few seemed to take it as personally as Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. Though he has so far refused to call on Gonzales to resign over his role in the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys and his testimony concerning the Administration's wiretapping programs, Specter has rarely hidden his frustration with Gonzales. Just this week, after Gonzales sent Specter and committee chairman Patrick Leahy a letter trying to defend himself against accusations that he had committed perjury in his testimony before the committee, Specter blasted him for deliberately "misleading...
...cabinet members were perishable goods, Alberto Gonzales would have passed his "sell by" date sometime last spring. Since January, when he first faced sharp questioning over the firing of U.S. Attorneys, the Attorney General has earned disastrous reviews for his inconsistent testimony, poor judgment and for appearing to place loyalty to the White House above service to the public. By June it was hard to find a Republican willing to defend him. Now Gonzales' dissembling testimony about a controversial domestic-spying program has raised suspicions about what he is hiding and fueled new calls for him to go. Senate Democrats...
...oldest person - other than Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who refuses to answer questions on the matter due to an ongoing investigation - to testify has been James Comey, the former No. 2 at the Justice Department. Excluding Comey, 46, the White House has sent five others to testify, none older than 36. Sara Taylor, for example, was Director of the White House's political office before...
...harrowing tale, but the jury did not think there was sufficient evidence linking Drummond with the murders. The plaintiffs concede this was "understandable" but only because the jury was not able to hear the testimony of four key witnesses. Two of them, Rafael Garcia and Alberto Visbal, a former paramilitary himself, claim to have attended a meeting at which they saw money passed from the president of Drummond's local subsidiary to a representative of paramilitary commanders for monthly "taxes," or to pay for the assassinations, a charge that Drummond has vehemently denied. Of course, nothing is that simple...
...except that Barcelona has paid for the privilege: roughly 10% of the film's budget, it is now known, comes from the pockets of taxpayers in the city and its region, Catalonia. "It's not just the money, and we don't have any problem with the movie," says Alberto Fernández of the opposition conservative Popular Party. "It's the attitude the city government has toward Allen. They give him privileges as if he were a visiting dignitary or head of state, while they don't treat Spanish and Catalan movie projects that...