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When the federal court's deadline to remove the monument from the lobby ran out in August, Moore's fellow state supreme court justices had no choice but to suspend him. To the fury of thousands of protesters, the monument was heaved into storage and Moore ordered to stand trial for ethics violations. Though the chief justice was described as risking his career in defense of his beliefs, it may turn out that the greater risk was taken by the nine-member panel of judges, lawyers and citizens from both parties who last week voted unanimously to oust him. Three...
...states, too, few chief ministers are untarnished by scandal. Perhaps most notorious today is Mayawati, who resigned in August as chief minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, to fight charges that her freewheeling administration threatened to undermine the very foundations of the country's national symbol, the Taj Mahal. According to charges drawn up by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Mayawati and others in the state government flouted rules on the environment and competitive tendering in their plans for a $60 million tourist mall, positioned uncomfortably close behind the marble mausoleum. The construction required the Yamuna River...
Focusing attention on her gender has practically become the foundation of Moseley Braun’s campaign. In early August, when addressing the need for a new investment in schools and the environment, she went so far as to imply that only a woman could solve these problems. “Women tend to be oriented to practical solutions,” she said. “If you want practical solutions that solve multiple problems, turn the job over to a woman...
Finally, in August 1979, all of the murals were brought to an off-site storage facility, never to be returned to the Holyoke Center...
...upon, is one of the most consequential tasks facing the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, the bipartisan congressional commission entrusted with the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks. The pertinence of this question was only heightened when the White House admitted last year that an August 2001 Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)—a document the CIA presents daily to the President and his top aides—referred to the possibility of al Qaeda’s using hijacked planes in a terrorist operation against the United States. Last week, the Bush administration finally...