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...array of tough questions--practical, legal, moral, even metaphysical--is being examined. Is the death penalty an effective, much less a necessary, deterrent to murder? Is it fair? That is, does it fall equally on the wealthy white surgeon ... and the indigent black with court-appointed (and possibly perfunctory) counsel? Most fundamental, is it civilized to take a life in the name of justice? --TIME...
...keep "all sensitive or politically interesting information to himself," a former Bush aide says. That sometimes cut Cheney off from hearing additional points of view even from his own aides. Libby's successor, David Addington, was viewed as so unyielding and difficult when he was the Vice President's counsel that he has poor relations with many West Wing aides, who are referred to collectively in Cheneyland as "across the street." Some members of the President's staff have never met their counterparts in Cheneyland. Many on Cheney's staff see Bush's aides as too liberal, while some Bush...
Goldsmith, after becoming head of the Office of Legal Counsel in 2003, argued that the Convention’s ban on torture applied to Iraqis who were members of al Qaeda, the magazine reported...
...that Shleifer violated conflict-of-interest policies by personally investing in Russia while running the program. The article suggests that Summers shielded Shleifer from disciplinary action by the University, which paid $26.5 million to settle the lawsuit. But in a brief letter dated Feb. 14, Vice President and General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano ’83 says the article does not make clear that Summers recused himself from the University’s decisions about the suit “from the outset of his presidency at Harvard.” The letter also says Summers did not participate...
Lees is one of two lawmakers who run Senate floor sessions, and the process by which bills are postponed is fairly informal, according to Lees’s legal counsel Daniel J. Connelly...