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...Copney, who turned himself in to authorities at the Cambridge Police Station on May 21, was also formally charged last night with accessory after the fact of murder, attempt to commit a crime, and possession of a firearm, according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone...
...lining the surrounding streets in his first public address since the outcome of last Friday's disputed presidential election. He insisted there had been no fraud in the result, describing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election win as "definitive." He added that the "Islamic establishment would never manipulate votes and commit treason. The legal structure in this country does not allow vote-rigging. If the difference was 100,000 or 500,000 or 1 million, well, one may say fraud could have happened. But how can one rig 11 million votes?" For Khamenei, the election was proof positive that democracy...
Harvard's schools have signed on to a new federal matching program to support financial aid for veterans, but the University's units differed widely in their financial commitment to the initiative—reflecting a tradition of decentralized decision-making at Harvard that current leaders have often sought to curtail.The recently-approved Yellow Ribbon Program—part of a new G.I. Bill that promises to pay up to the maximum in-state public undergraduate tuition rate for veterans who have served at least three years after 9/11—allows institutions to enter into agreements with...
...stop credit guarantees for Iranian energy companies and those that work with them, and it wants to halt all investments in the energy sector. And Ross doesn't want to stop there. The U.S. has pushed Russia, a major trading partner of Iran's, to be ready to commit to sanctions on businesses unrelated to Iran's nuclear program - something Russia has resisted. In a secret letter in early February to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Obama wrote that the U.S. would abandon its plans for missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic - which the U.S. has always justified...
Some House aides complain that Cornyn - who was responsible for pulling the plug on Palin initially, when she waffled about whether she could commit to the dinner - issued the second invitation only because he recently ran afoul of conservatives when he endorsed Florida Governor Charlie Crist over conservative darling Mark Rubio months ahead of the primary for the Florida Senate. Cornyn's folks, not surprisingly, reject this idea. (See highlights from a debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin...