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...Since Chertoff's nomination was first announced, Washington insiders have been mystified as to why he gave up a lifetime appointment as a U.S. Court of Appeals Circuit Judge to take over an unwieldy new bureaucracy with limited power. Chertoff says the answer is simple: 9/11. In the aftermath of the attacks, he says he realized that to be a part of helping the country respond was "the most important challenge of my generation...
State and local officials are building institutions virtually overnight to grapple with pill-related crime. Three regional jails are set to open this spring to ease inmate overcrowding in the state's Appalachian corner, and the Virginia general assembly recently appointed another circuit judge to help Tazewell. Also, the legislature has begun exploring an expansion of southwestern Virginia's prescription-monitoring program statewide, allowing state police and physicians to detect patients who go doctor shopping. In Tazewell, authorities are applying a big-city solution to their rural problem. They recently began a drug court dedicated to drug cases, where young...
...effort to head off the scheduled removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, the House of Representatives, led by Republican Tom DeLay, took the extraordinary step on Friday of issuing a subpoena for Schiavo herself, along with her doctors and family. The move was rebuffed by Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George Greer, who said there was "no cogent reason" for Congress to intervene. The tube was taken out Friday, but a day later the House and Senate were crafting a measure that would allow Schiavo's parents to take the case for keeping her alive to federal court...
...extremely fragmented inside." Mussolini ended her five-day hunger strike when her appeal for a place on next month's ballot was rejected. But she vowed to fight on, preferably alone. "I want to stay out of any coalition," she said. "We will continue to create a short circuit for everyone in this bipolar system." The Prime Minister is still likely to court her, though. "Berlusconi loves [Mussolini] because she is so good at the spectacle of politics," says La Repubblica columnist Filippo Ceccarelli. But if tiny parties like hers can keep their outsized influence, Berlusconi may no longer find...
...forklift driver and a father of two, was at a pub in Belfast when he got into an argument. It spilled into the street, where McCartney was stabbed and beaten to death by a gang that allegedly included I.R.A. members. The perpetrators cleaned the scene, removed closed-circuit television footage and intimidated witnesses, the sisters and police say. Some witnesses have come forward but have denied seeing the actual attack, and no one has been charged. "Seventy-two people could not have all been in the toilets," says Paula McCartney, one of Robert's sisters...