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Most of the attention has focused on the prospective Democratic candidacies of Andy Dillon, speaker of Michigan's house of representatives, and Denise Ilitch, a scion of the family that owns the Little Caesar's pizza chain and the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. The Democrats, says Michigan political analyst...
Lanky and telegenic, Dillon, 48, is the son of a former judge. Trained as a lawyer, he worked as a steel-company president before winning a seat in Michigan's house of representatives in 2004. He built a fairly conservative record (he is Catholic and opposes abortion); his efforts to...
Then there were Brown's strengths as a fresh, energetic and appealing candidate who stood out in contrast to his Democratic opponent. State attorney general Martha Coakley seemed to take the race so much for granted that she barely bothered to campaign until it was too late. Asked by the...
During the proceedings, Le Cong Dinh, a well-known U.S.-educated attorney, admitted that he had joined the banned Democratic Party of Vietnam and had called for multiparty democracy - a crime in Vietnam's single-party state. His other crime, according to the Ho Chi Minh City court, included attending...
A second defendant, Nguyen Tien Trung, a French-educated IT engineer, also admitted to the court that he had joined the Democratic Party, though he said he made a mistake by engaging in pro-democracy activities and deeply regretted his actions. He was given a seven-year jail term. Tran...