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...Supreme Court nominees. Calling him ''deficient,'' the draft bemoans the spelling and grammatical errors in his legal briefs. It also faults his lack of experience in federal courts. (Among the cases Manion cited as his most significant were such unmomentous disputes as one in which he defended a car dealership accused of misrepairing a Volkswagen Rabbit.) Says Delaware Democratic Senator Joseph Biden: ''This man is not up to snuff. I think my milkman is a decent man, but he shouldn't serve on the circuit court of appeals...
...from sports highlights to heavy-breathing aural sex. Add another service to the list: a menu of interest rates by phone. A consumer calling the Answer Quest telephone service in Los Angeles or Detroit can get recorded messages on the best local interest rates for mortgages, commercial real estate, car loans and CDs, or on current precious-metal prices--each for $2. For an additional $2, Answer Quest offers selective ''financial hot tips,'' like how to pick a stockbroker...
...when 5,791 American winners of a BA sweepstakes were given free flights to London. Even Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got into the act when she invited 30 of the sweepstakes winners to join her at 10 Downing Street for tea. For its part, Pan Am is offering free car rentals and two-for-one ticket deals to help fill seats on its Europe-bound planes. The airline is heavily promoting its new ''Alert'' security measures, which place armed guards and sniffer dogs in most Pan Am terminals. TWA is offering similar incentives, but last week the troubled airline, which...
...drove them toward Pakistan. What happened next forms a central source of dispute between Hamdan and the government. According to his defense lawyers, Hamdan figured that he would be arrested if he tried to cross the border, so he instead dropped off his family and planned to return the car, which he had borrowed, before finding a different way into Pakistan. Soufan and government prosecutors say that Hamdan remained in Afghanistan to fight alongside al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Their account is corroborated by the fact that the Northern Alliance forces who captured Hamdan in Afghanistan hours after he left...
...attention was welcome. In March, the McCanns - named as suspects amid reports that Portuguese police had found Madeleine's DNA in the trunk of a car rented almost a month after her disappearance - won an apology and $1.1 million from Britain's Express Newspapers, after its tabloids falsely suggested the parents were responsible for Madeleine's death. Murat, for his part, received $1.2 million in damages from a string of British newspapers earlier this month over stories claiming, again incorrectly, he was involved in the child's disappearance...