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...have to be there. Why should I go?" he asks. The court insists he attend most days. A media pack mobs him inside the courthouse, swarming around him as his four-man, one-woman legal team answers questions about the day's battle plan. Then the clerk calls the court to order and the three judges take their seats. Estrada faces the bench from the front row, sagging in a monogrammed barong tagalog, his lips tugged down in a pout, his eyes slipping shut as his attorneys drone on. And he's right. It is tedious. Delay is the name...
...politely declined to answer. Instead they asked Das if he had recently reserved a ticket for the shuttle bus from Plainsboro to J.F.K. airport in New York City. Das said he had booked a ride earlier that evening. They asked how he had spelled his name for the reservation clerk. Das said he spelled it: "D as in David, A as in America...
According to an employee of the company that took the reservation, Airporter, based in Princeton, N.J., that is not what Das said. After hanging up with Das, an Airporter clerk went immediately to her supervisor and said she had just spoken with a man with a Middle Eastern accent who had spelled out his name "D as in destruction, A as in America, S as in Sam." "She couldn't believe somebody was using those words over the phone," says Hamilton Township, N.J., police lieutenant Michael Cane. Das was charged with one count each of disorderly conduct and harassment. Bond...
...that it is their policy to withhold such information. The CEO of Airporter, Alan Glickman, says the reservationist is a "valued employee in good standing." When Das goes before a judge on Dec. 18, facing the possibility of six months' jail time for each charge, it will be the clerk's word against...
...Tennessee mentioned the idea at an economic conference at Princeton and was startled by the enthusiasm it generated among business leaders and students alike. Senate G.O.P. leader Trent Lott, on a trip home to Mississippi, says the idea was talked up by a satellite-dish installer and the clerk at his dry cleaner in Pascagoula. The plan also won support from state and local governments--themselves major employers facing budget crunches. All sides are back at the negotiating table on Capitol Hill, and the measure now stands a good chance of being part of an economic-stimulus package...