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...consider signing on to health care reform, he got together with Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, to co-sponsor an alternative health care bill. He crossed party lines to become the sole Republican supporter in the Judiciary Committee of Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court. And he's been reaching out to Dems on social security reform and immigration - an issue expected to be tackled next year. Do a search on Congress's legislative database and more than 200 hits come up for bipartisan amendments and resolutions co-sponsored by Graham this year alone...
...says Senator Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican. Graham, after all, knows when to draw the line. Earlier this year he was the only Republican willing to work with the Administration to close Guantanamo. But when the Administration, over his objections, decided to bring detainees to trial in federal court, he walked away...
...matter of Chinachem Charitable Foundation Ltd v. Chan Chun-chuen was heard at Hong Kong's Court of First Instance during the summer, and judgment is expected by year's end. The synopsis is this: upon the death, at 69, of billionairess Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum (a woman who wore her hair in pigtails, dressed like Lolita and answered to the nickname Little Sweetie), two conflicting wills were produced. One bequeathed her $4.2 billion estate to the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, run by her siblings. The other was flaunted by feng shui "master" Tony Chan Chun-chuen - who also claimed...
...court, Chan's professional tomfoolery (he once told a former legislator to burn nearly $2,000 a day "for luck") was thrown into sharp relief against the obscenity of his remuneration - so sharply that many Hong Kongers, including myself, were at last woken from the thrall in which feng shui had held us. Chan couldn't even produce a credible expert witness. Joseph Yu, the Ontario-based feng shui practitioner called as such, revealed that he was almost entirely self-taught, prompting Justice Johnson Lam to remark, "I think there is no need to cross-examine any further." (Watch TIME...
...Native American students. President Obama called the proposed settlement in Cobell v. Salazar--one of the largest and most complex class actions ever brought against the government--an "important step toward a sincere reconciliation" between the U.S. and Native Americans. The pact must be approved by a federal court and authorized by Congress...