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...members recruited so far who will not be receiving scholarship money this year. More broadly, AmeriCorps itself faces a reduction from approximately 55,000 to 35,000 members. Just before the summer recess, the Senate passed a $100 million appropriation to restore these cuts, but House majority leader Tom DeLay-who has made no secret of his desire to kill AmeriCorps-blocked the money. The President says he wants these funds restored, but he doesn't seem to have much control over the powerful DeLay. Even if Bush means what he says, Teach for America has been axed...
While the defense could have raised questions about the fundamental validity of Okhotin’s investigation, Sonnenberg said, doing so would only have led to lengthy re-examination of the charges and a further delay in a trial for which Okhotin has already waited several months...
...said then that he feared some witnesses might fail to show up the next morning as part of an intentional prosecutorial plan to delay his day in court “for weeks or months,” virtually ad infinitum...
...brief filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office last month, the first continuance was granted on the initial scheduled trial date of September 2002 “at the last moment because of the illness of defense counsel’s wife.” The next delay was caused by the appointment of Byrne’s lawyer, Kenneth Fishman, to a judgeship in December 2002. Byrne remained without counsel—producing yet another postponement while he tried to find a lawyer—until this spring, when he retained Frank A. Libby...
...visionless governance are not unique to Sacramento, nor are the efforts of right-wing populist extremists to use constitutional gimmickry to subvert democracy. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was part of the latter trend, as is the current effort in the Texas state legislature--orchestrated by Congressman Tom DeLay--to redraw district lines. As a nation, we seem to be losing the habits of civility and citizenship. Public life is becoming a pricey boutique, catering only to special interests and political eccentrics. The California recall is goofy, irresponsible--and not a bad way to remind politicians that their work involves...