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That's where Sam Bowden, 34, and Byron Conaway, 30, come in. The former undercover narcotics detectives were assigned to the state's attorney's office full time in September 2004. Since then they have been assigned to serve more than 300 summonses and body attachments (special incarceration warrants for witnesses who don't want to be found). It can be a maddening chase at times. Wearing baggy street clothes with Kevlar vests underneath, the two troll the city's grim row houses looking for witnesses who are, as often as not, "in the game" themselves, part of the same...
...supporters from academia, the judiciary and the executive branch. And far from winning over moderate Republicans, Democrats seem to be losing their own centrists. Democratic leadership aides say they expect Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bill Nelson of Florida to vote for Alito, joined by Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. Blanche Lincoln of Nebraska is on the fence, and the betting is that anywhere from 5 to 10 Democrats will abandon ship and vote with the Republicans. While not as dramatic a Republican win as the 78-22 blowout in favor of Chief Justice John Roberts...
...Byron Calame succeeded Okrent in May 2005, by which point Okrent had “made it very clear that the public editor at the New York Times was truly independent,” Calame said yesterday...
...political legacy and not enough on his religious influence. “As a Christian, it was good to hear the faith of Martin Luther King come up,” Papke said. “But it could have come up more.” State Representative Byron Rushing ’64, D-Boston, the keynote speaker, encouraged the audience to take inspiration and action . “Get someone in America to call you a dangerous Negro,” Rushing challenged the audience after stating that officials in U.S. government feared King and referred...
...Calling Don Byron a jazz musician is like calling the Pacific wet—it just doesn’t begin to describe it,” according to Time Magazine.Don Byron may not be well-known among Harvard students, but he’s developed a reputation in the jazz world for ceaselessly shattering musical boundaries. This weekend, the Harvard Office For the Arts (OFA) and the Harvard Jazz Bands are bringing the 47-year-old clarinetist to campus as an Artist-in-Residence for the OFA’s ongoing “Learning with Performers?...