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...SPORTS $162 million Amount bid by ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to buy Britain's Manchester City soccer club $1.95 billion Total amount of Thaksin's fortune frozen pending an investigation into his finances; Thai authorities said they would freeze an additional $148 million in assets after the bid's acceptance was announced on June...
Ever since Robert Bork was defeated in his 1987 bid for a seat on the Supreme Court, liberals have feared that the court would turn right on the issues they care most about. And this was the year their fears finally began to be vindicated. As the first full term with both Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito came to a close, it became increasingly clear that in the post--Sandra Day O'Connor era, the center of the court has shifted several degrees to the right. Both Alito and Anthony Kennedy, who has emerged as the new swing Justice...
...Winning bid for a first edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first of the Potter series. There were between 500 and 1,000 copies of the book's first...
Finkelstein, whose tenure bid did receive the support of his department, also said that he believed Dershowitz “played the leading role in creating an atmosphere of hysteria” that ensured he would not be able to remain at DePaul, and that there were days when Dershowitz would send two to three e-mails to members of the political science department about him. During a phone interview with Finkelstein conducted by The Crimson, listeners in the background—whom the professor did not name but said were colleagues on the DePaul faculty—audibly expressed...
Though the elected officials said they came to show their support, not all are formally endorsing McGovern. Galluccio, who is laying the groundwork for a state senate bid, said that he is “not crazy enough to endorse someone for a race when I have a race of my own.” Seidel said that “[McGovern] was a great School Committee member” but that he's “not supporting him exclusively...