Word: carles
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...Carl Douglas and Shawn Chapman, lawyers in Cochran's office, also gave interviews to Schiller, as did 27 other people. The only one of the group who really risks sanctions from the California bar, however, is Kardashian. According to Stephen Gillers, a legal-ethics expert at New York University, Schiller's journalistic privilege could have shielded Kardashian as a source for the book--if he hadn't gone on abc's 20/20 and repeated many of the damaging revelations about Simpson. "This is tantamount to a confession of professional misconduct by Kardashian," Gillers says. "It's like videotaping your...
...there's more. Powerful constituents can also exceed the per-candidate spending limits through a type of earmarking called "tallying," which routes their big checks to the party and then back to their candidate of choice. The Washington Post found memos from the campaign of Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that openly asked donors to tally their extra contributions to benefit his campaign. One letter from Levin soliciting a tallied contribution from the Chrysler Corp.'s PAC in 1995 called it "crucial to my re-election effort next year...
...Even Carl Steadman, co-founder of the irreverent online daily Suck www.suck.com) reads the wood-pulp versions of three newspapers every day, despite the fact that each is published verbatim on the Web. "I find it so much more, shall we say, 'couth,' to read them at a cafe over a Frappuccino," Steadman says. "The paper delivers a much more personal experience...
...Then, alerted by Houston police of the dangers of a new club drug called gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, investigators decided to take a second look. Sure enough, Farias' tissues showed that she had died of a GHB overdose. "This kid was a role-model type," says La Porte Lieut. Carl Crisp. "There's nothing to indicate that she willingly took this drug...
...Professor of Statistics Carl N. Morris said even the most well-intentioned researchers are sometimes affected by unconscious bias...