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...said Simha. “You can imagine how uncomfortable that can be.” As part of the suit, the developers are required to provide an explanation of the delay within 30 days of the April 13 filing, said the plaintiff’s attorney, Jeffrey J. Upton. If communication resumes, “this need not be a contentious fight,” Upton said. —Staff writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
President Bill Clinton spent his first 100 days bouncing between a series of blunders: unsuccessful Attorney General nominations, Hillary Clinton's failed health-care reform, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the botched Branch Davidian raid in Waco, Texas. President George W. Bush presented a $1.96 trillion budget plan to Congress, created an Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and halted federal funding for international organizations that offered family-planning services...
...appointed Philadelphia's assistant district attorney in 1959 after spending his first three years in private practice. Left the district attorney's office in 1963 to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as an assistant counsel on the Warren Commission. Became a household name as the Commission's chief architect and a vocal defender of the group's theory that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone...
...Following the Warren Commission, Specter joined the Pennsylvania Department of Justice as a special assistant attorney general and, in 1965, he ran against his former boss to become the Philadelphia District Attorney (Though he was a registered Democrat, he ran on the Republican ticket when he failed to secure the Democratic nomination...
...After narrowly losing Philadelphia's mayoral election 1967 to a Pittsburgh millionaire, Specter continued to work as Philadelphia's District Attorney for eight years, overseeing 250,000 cases. In 1969, he hired two rival gang leaders as consultants to address the city's rising violence and the following year charged two white policemen with aggravated assault and battery in the shooting death of a black man - moves that won both derision and praise...