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...will be nominated to serve as President-elect Barack Obama’s solicitor general, the administration’s representative to the Supreme Court, Obama announced in a press release Monday morning.If confirmed by the Senate, Kagan will represent the federal government, party to about two-thirds of cases brought before the high court, and play an integral role in guiding the administration’s interaction with the Supreme Court, working under Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Eric J. Holder.“I am honored and grateful, awestruck and excited, to be asked...
...Individuals are created and shaped by social circumstances far more than they or their observers are able to recognize,” Banaji wrote in an unpublished biography for the Guggenheim Foundation. “Mainly in retrospect, I see my career as a textbook case of how fortuitous circumstances and responsive bystanders eased the path for my growth...
...this year, Smith said unemployment would likely increase as well—he estimated that the state would take in $1.5 billion in employee contributions in 2009, while paying out $1.7 billion in benefits. “We’ve taken a look at the future with worst case scenarios, and we’re looking pretty good,” Smith said. “In 2008, we ended the year with the same amount of money we began the year with, which is not a bad thing. It would have been better if we made some money...
...wants to stay that way. The threat, not only to animals on stock farms but also to those in the wild, is prompting Texas regulators to seek an increase in the penalty for smuggling from a misdemeanor to a felony, Williford says. Federal and state wildlife officials take smuggling cases seriously, but investigations take a long time to develop - a recent case was built over two years and then took 18 months to work its way through federal courts, where penalties are harsher...
Should that happen, a Sarkozy mission that had borne all the signs of failure might yet prove pivotal to bringing an end to the current violence in Gaza. But as is often the case with such clashes in the region, a final resolution may turn out to be the fruit of a particularly chilling horror. The upbeat response to the Franco-Egyptian proposal came just hours after an Israeli mortar strike hit a U.N. school in Gaza, killing 39 Palestinians, many of them children. "I don't think you can say that one terrible event will change everything itself...