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...first words out of his mouth during a lunch with George W. Bush were "I want to stay in the Senate" and not join the president elect's cabinet as energy secretary. But Breaux did use the lunch to make a plug for his Louisiana buddy, former Democratic Sen. Bennett Johnston, who chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee before he retired in 1996. "I can't think of anybody better," Breaux told Bush. Johnston shares Bush's views on energy policy. "If you want to have a bipartisan cabinet, Bennett would be perfect," Breaux said. Bush made...
...could, that is, if a very specific chain of events comes to pass. And this is where things get ultra-complicated: If the recount leaves Gore the winner, could the Florida legislature still override the recount tally and name their own Bush-friendly slate of electors? According to Robert Bennett, constitutional law professor at Northwestern University, the answer to that question depends on one's interpretation of a specific statute, which holds that the legislature can become involved only if there is a "failure of the choice process." If one defines Election Day as the "choice process," the legislature...
Gilbreania was placed in the home of Doris Jean Bennett, who was called Miss Doris. Her record was spotty. Miss Doris, a homemaker, had seen two children in her care suffer broken bones under questionable circumstances; an infant boy had come to the hospital comatose allegedly after being shaken. (She convinced investigators that the shaking occurred before she got the child.) On June 1999 she took the fatally injured Gilbreania to a hospital, claiming she had slipped and fallen in the bathtub. But doctors examining her discovered injuries so severe that the child's brain had been pushed into...
...Homer Bennett's birth family was far from perfect. His mom and dad paid the bills by peddling heroin and cocaine from the living room couch of their three-bedroom home on Chicago's South Side. The parents had a sense of decorum. In front of Homer and his brother Frankie, they would refer to the two drugs as "boy" and "girl." Homer and Frankie never learned which was which, though they knew it was dope. Once, when the police came by, the brothers hid underneath a bed, emerging to beg the cops not to take their...
...told, Homer Bennett has lived in 14 different foster homes, seldom staying in one longer than a year. At one point, he did get to stay with his maternal grandmother, but she was frail, elderly and unable to care for Homer and Frankie. So the brothers went back into state care, where they were separated and placed in different homes...