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Bush, Jeb •shadow of ne'er-do-well brother of causes postponement of national career...
...filing the motion for an extension, Fitzgerald revealed that the investigation, begun in 2003, involves many more suspects than the two thus far charged - Blagojevich and his resigned chief of staff John Harris. Reports are surfacing that the probe is widening beyond the governor into the dealings of his brother Robert, who ran his campaign fund. The motion also noted that "thousands of phone calls were intercepted between late-October 2008 and early-December 2008," that confidential witnesses were used as part of the case and that "multiple witnesses have come forward in recent weeks to discuss their knowledge...
...times and the worst of times. At long last it was Raúl’s turn, as Cuba’s president, to preside over the anniversary that marked half a century at the country’s helm. Fifty years and eleven U.S. presidents ago, his brother Fidel and he led a ragtag rebel force to improbable victory in early January 1959. Yet, days before this event, it was also Raúl’s turn to preside over the session of the Cuban National Assembly to enact a new social security law—an act that...
Wickrematunge, who was trained as a lawyer, started the Sunday Leader with his brother almost on a whim. Over dinner last week, he told me he intended at first to get the newspaper off the ground and then return to law, but he couldn't get enough of the thrill of journalism. So it was especially frustrating for him to be prevented from running pictures or firsthand reporting from the war zones in northern Sri Lanka. The government claims that the 25-year-old war is finally approaching an end - an event any journalist would be eager to cover...
...party was, all officials were his potential targets. And Wickrematunge believed he had become theirs. His paper's stories and editorials about the administration of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa have been particularly controversial. The newspaper is fighting a defamation lawsuit by Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the President's brother, over a series of Leader articles alleging corruption. The Sri Lankan government has denied responsibility for the attack on Wickrematunge and has called for an investigation...