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Journalists often make the best travelers because they are so curious and intrepid. Marion Hume, who wrote the cover story on Australia's far-flung islands, has logged more miles in her career as a Sydney- and London-based writer than she would care to admit. Steadfast and unafraid, Hume will dash off to Beijing on a moment's notice and can touch down in a remote corner of New Zealand and uncover a cutting-edge, global boutique...
...mentored 150 graduate students and post-docs during his career, and he continues to recruit young researchers from around the world. Enxuan Jing, who came to the Joslin Center from China, calls his experience working with Kahn “probably the best time in my life...
...over the Inaugural ball, Hawaii has a bit of a chip on its shoulder. Obama, after all, is a Senator from Illinois, and the incoming President comes off as more a Land of Lincolner than a son of the Aloha State. It's been that way throughout his political career. For example, it took more than a year of watching Obama play poker in "the Committee Meeting" - the nickname that Illinois state senators gave their regular, after-hours poker games - for legislator Denny Jacobs to notice Obama's occasional offhand references to Hawaii's nearly year-round 85-degree weather...
...When the House Judiciary Committee looked into the Siegelman affair earlier this year, the DOJ issued statements, placed in the Congressional Record, maintaining that the case had been handled only by career prosecutors, not political appointees, and that Canary had recused herself in 2002, "before any significant decisions ... were made...
...sending out messages" via U.S. Marshals, the e-mail says, identifying a particular juror as "very interested" in a person who had sat at the prosecution table in court. The same juror was later described as reaching out to members of the prosecution team for personal advice about her career and educational plans. Conyers commented that the "risk of [jury] bias ... is obvious...