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...crazy did we get? Our presidential election came down to a woman and a black guy, as if the presidency were no more important than those last two Supreme Court seats at the end of the bench. The Republicans picked their Vice President using the same criterion as guys in an Alaskan bar: by going for the only chick there. Sarah Palin got a $150,000 makeover when it was obvious to everyone outside the party that John McCain needed it more. As the year went on, people got even more entranced by risk, placing their roulette bets on green...
...will ask the courts to give ex-President Chen Shui-bian the strictest punishment.' CHEN YUN-NAN, spokesman for the Taiwanese Supreme Court's special prosecutor's office, on the indictment of Taiwan's former President on charges that he pocketed millions in campaign donations...
...vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder, a diverse coalition of local, state and national politicians has called on him to step down. The state legislature on Monday took the first steps to start impeachment proceedings, and state attorney general Lisa Madigan has appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court to invoke an obscure law to declare Blagojevich unfit (at least temporarily) for office. Over the weekend, there were media reports that Blagojevich could resign as early as Monday. But late Sunday, his spokesperson denied any such thing, and others insisted that the governor, who claims he has done nothing wrong...
...Ulrike Meinhof, a RAF co-founder, told a German court in 1976 that her group's actions were directed against the U.S. military presence in the Federal Republic of Germany. U.S. bases in Germany were a lifeline to troops in Vietnam - U.S. bombers on their way to Hanoi made a stopover in Wiesbaden just as those same bases support U.S. troops in Iraq today. (See pictures of life returning to Iraq's streets...
...world.” Throughout the first part of his scholarly career—which included stints at Chicago, Harvard, and Stanford—Lessig focused on legal issues associated with the Internet and copyright law. He gained a strong following for taking a case to the Supreme Court in 2003 that challenged the constitutionality of current U.S. copyright law. In 2007, Lessig announced that he hoped to take his work in a new direction by focusing on political corruption. Although the offer of a professorship had been made over a year ago, according to Law School professor Richard...