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...Riley said, "I do not recall making the statement attributed to me." He added: "Neither I nor anyone on our campaign staff have been involved...in a conspiracy to bring a criminal case against Don Siegelman." Louis Franklin, who prosecuted Siegelman, said he did confer on several occasions with Justice Dept. officials in Washington, but that "nobody ordered me to bring this case, and we handled it just like any other...
...aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook...
...methodical, think it through, talk to my colleagues," Rudd said. "I think that's the right thing to do. John Howard would do the same thing." To vaunt his own authority, Rudd recently convened a national summit on climate change and invited miners, scientists, environmentalists and policy makers to confer. A stunt? Yes. But the coverage helped widen his lead on what Labor argues is the great moral issue...
...dean,” said Knowles, who is expected to step down from his interim post June 30.Committee members have declined to comment on their work advising the incoming president, although English Department Chair James Engell ’73 said that they have a schedule in place to confer with Faust.Knowles said he looks forward to the forthcoming appointment of a “younger and more vigorous dean.”The 10 search committee members are Engell, Coolidge Professor of History David Blackbourn, Professor of Astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman, Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby...
...named Frank Miller went to the movies with his parents. The movie was Rudolph Mat's The 300 Spartans. Miller was 5. "It had a deep, deep effect on me," Miller says. "I actually snuck across the theater in order to confer with my dad and make sure the heroes really were dying. I stopped thinking of heroes as being the people who got medals at the end or the key to the city and started thinking of them more as the people who did the right thing and damn the consequences." When Miller grew up, he created a comic...