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...said J. Daniel O’Flaherty, vice president of the National Foreign Trade Council.O’Flaherty also criticized a bill pending in the Massachusetts legislature that would divest state pension funds from select companies doing business with Sudan. “Our point is to defend the prerogative of executive and federal government to wage a unitary foreign policy,” O’Flaherty said. Last month, a federal judge declared unconstitutional a similar law, from Illinois, that would have barred state-backed investments in overseas companies dealing with Sudan. But other panelists...
...judge ruled that they could sue KPMG for their legal bills (KPMG has appealed the ruling) and slammed the prosecution for denying them the right to counsel: "The government ... has let its zeal get in the way of its judgment. It has violated the Constitution it is sworn to defend...
...conference mark will hurt Harvard’s seeding. The Crimson, however, has ripped off 12 straight wins by an average margin of 17.3 points a game. Harvard’s guard trio of Emily Tay, Lindsay Hallion, and Niki Finelli is athletic enough to create offense and defend against a Top 25 team. But rebounding and defense take center stage in NCAA tournament games.And the Crimson’s low-post game, anchored by sophomore standout Katie Rollins and captain Christiana Lackner, morphed into a rebounding machine in the second half of the season. Harvard outrebounded its opponent...
...tendency that the Bad People find so repulsive—what they implicitly assume is contained in all humor that hints at homophobia, racism, sexism, genderism, etc. When they find it where it really exists, though, far be it for a clownish little faggot like me to defend the jokester...
...jury won't get to hear what he has to say. Al Fayed, who has long held that Diana and his son were murdered by British security services on the orders of Diana's former father-in-law, Prince Philip, was hoping he would finally get the chance to defend his claims to a jury of "ordinary people." At a preliminary hearing on Monday, however, Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, who will lead the inquests into the couple's deaths, said that the proceedings won't look at the murder allegations unless Al Fayed can come up with some evidence...