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...nearly 40 other antiques this week--all part of $2.4 million in bribes taken by ex-Congressman Randy (Duke) Cunningham--with proceeds going toward his unpaid tax bills. Here's a peek at other items, once owned by big-name debtors, that the government seized to put on the block...
Freshmen must enter their blocking and linking preferences today. And with a new neighborhood blocking option that allows two groups of freshmen to link with each other, first-years may face a more flexible social network when they enter the House system. Last May, the Committee on House Life and the Undergraduate Council passed an initiative to allow a blocking group of up to eight people to link with another group. The two blocking groups would be assigned to nearby Houses. Under this new system, the Houses are divided into four “neighborhoods.” Cabot, Currier...
...preemption as a “yes or no, black or white, legal or illegal” and repeated assertions that a jurisprudence cannot be created flawlessly in one try, Dershowitz is resigned to treating this work not as a landmark treatise on preemption but as a first building block...
...most of the wreckage appeared to be in the surrounding neighborhoods and business districts. On one block, part of a house had crashed down on a truck. On another, the trees on either side had collapsed into the middle, creating an impassible stretch. Power cables dangled and stretched across streets like clotheslines. A local bar owned by the brother of Springfield's mayor was turned into a convertible, its roof swept away, but beer signs still hung on walls that remained standing-a telling sign of nature's seeming illogic...
...national-unity government would mean. What are the forces that should constitute this government? On that, there is broad agreement -not unanimous, but broad agreement - that it should be formed from the Shi'ite alliance, the Kurdish alliance, the Sunni Arab alliance and across sectarian groups, [the secular block] led by Iyad Allawi. The second issue is that there has to be a process for decision-making in which these forces could participate and that's important for a variety of reasons. There is a strong polarization along ethnic and sectarian lines that indicates a lack of trust across these...