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Michael Scanlon, who is Abramoff's former partner and has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a Congressman, in 2001 told the New Times of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that Abramoff had "a relationship" with the President. "He doesn't have a bat phone or anything, but if he wanted an appointment, he would have one," Scanlon said. Nonsense, say others. A former White House official familiar with some Abramoff requests to the White House said Abramoff had some meetings with Administration officials in 2001 and 2002, but he was later frozen out because aides became suspicious of his funding sources...
CLINTON He drove like a bat out of hell...
...Nichols: A yellow wiffle ball bat...
CHALLENGES: Right off the bat, the screenwriters had to commit sacrilege by tinkering with a beloved children's classic. They also had to wrestle with a strongly Christian plot that flirts with Sunday-school didacticism and had to keep kids interested despite a noticeable lack of exploding spaceships...
...read a passage from an article that Posner had written in 1996 where he advocated looking abroad to find the grounds to invalidate a law punishing drug possession too harshly. “Well, I do like to be on both sides of an issue; that way I can bat .500,” Posner said to loud laughter in reference to the potential contradiction. Young said that the heart of the controversy was whether the Supreme Court was submitting to the authority of foreign courts or whether it was being persuaded by their reasoning. After reading the opinion, Young...