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...society is also aimed to counter what Tribe called the prevailing image of liberal or progressive legal scholars...
...After a fortifying breakfast of creamy grits, scrambled eggs, and fried fish at the counter of legendary Sylvia's, I started my journey on the east side of 125th Street heading west along this artery of Harlem commerce...
...Microsoft, this was the kind of publicity you just can't buy. Not only did Redmond get to share a dais with the Justice Department -which is rather like Stalin vowing eternal friendship with Roosevelt to counter the Nazi menace - but they also had their name inextricably linked with the well-being of the Internet itself. This quote from Tuesday's Wall Street Journal is typical: "the Code Red worm may disrupt the Internet on a global scale ? the FBI urged owners of business-type servers to install a patch from Microsoft's website." When the world's in trouble...
SENTENCED. JEFFREY ARCHER, 61, former deputy chairman of Britain's Tory party and best-selling novelist, to four years in prison; for perjury and obstruction of justice; in London. After asking friend Ted Francis to support a fake alibi to counter a newspaper's claim that he'd had an affair with a prostitute, Archer sued the Daily Star for libel and won. Justice Francis Potts called Archer's actions "the most serious offense of perjury I have experienced...
...timing can hardly be coincidental. Kim hardly ever travels abroad, and yet at a time when a top U.S. cabinet official is in Moscow discussing a missile shield intended, in significant part, to counter North Korea's potential missile capability, and here you have the North Korean leader suddenly turning up in eastern Russia on a slow train to Moscow...