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...UConn’s denials seem unconvincing in light of the fact that Huskies coaches had some 1,565 different phone calls or texts with Nochimson during and after Miles’ recruitment. ESPN later reported that Nochimson may have helped shepherd another UConn recruit, Ater Majok, on his way to Storrs...
...like Houston and Atlanta, where a large number of evacuees are still living. Turnout in predominantly African-American precincts was about 30% vs. nearly 50% for mostly white precincts, according to an analysis by GCR and Associates, done for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. Although Secretary of State Al Ater said the election went off without a hitch, Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition has threatened to sue for violation of voting rights...
...Absentee voting has been heavy, with 300 to 1,000 requests a day and Ater predicting a total of 25,000 absentee ballots will be filed. The state has made arrangements to deal with the deluge, mainly by having requests and ballots sent and returned by priority mail routed through Baton Rouge because the New Orleans postal office is still understaffed. Nagin himself doesn?t seem worried despite the confusion of the race. "People are really going to have to work to educate themselves, rather than depend on somebody else to feed them the information. Most of the so-called...
...Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater met with a similar lack of success when he went to Houston to spread the word about the election and absentee voting. Not a single displaced voter from New Orleans showed up. His office has spent $400,000 on an informational ad campaign, using change-of-address lists to get voter information to evacuees. He promised 300 employees at polling sites on election day and has spent $50,000 on signs to direct people to other sites if their usual polling station was devastated by Katrina and had to be moved. "Let me tell...
...Scott to help Ms. Lewinsky find a White House job. Ms. Currie testified that she resisted the request, because her opinion of Ms. Lewinsky had shifted over time. At first, she testified, she considered Ms. Lewinsky "a friend" who "had been wronged" and had been "maligned improperly." But "[l]ater on, I considered her as a pain in the neck, more or less." The change of heart resulted in part from Ms. Currie's many phone calls in 1997 from Ms. Lewinsky, who was often distraught and sometimes in tears over her inability to get in touch with the President...