Word: depaul
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...wants to drive when you can watch movies and play with your computer?" asks Joe Schwieterman, a DePaul University professor who specializes in urban planning and transportation. He recently published a study on intercity U.S. bus travel that showed a nearly 10% jump from 2007 to '08. "As Amtrak and the airlines have struggled with incorporating wireless, we think that's a big part of why it's suddenly cool to jump on the bus," he says...
...invited him back on the show" last spring, says Oprah's spokeswoman, Angela dePaul, but the reunion didn't work out for reasons she declined to divulge. A few months later, the Chatelaine of Chicago herself picked up the phone and called Frey to apologize for the public whupping she handed him in 2006, when it was revealed that his 2003 addiction memoir, A Million Little Pieces, had some not-so-little lies in it, like the fact that he spent only a few hours in police custody rather than the three months in jail he described in his book...
...Oprah's show? He isn't completely ruling it out. "Both parties would have to be comfortable about why I was coming on," he says, "and what I was talking about." And now, Oprah, will you continue to play nice? "The show has wrapped for the season," says dePaul, "and there are no plans to invite him again at this time...
...actually think that the children's hospital charge would worry me even more," says Andrea Lyon, a law professor at DePaul University and former head of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "Holding up sick children and the doctors caring for them seems like an emotional matter that's not going to play well for him before a jury," Lyon says. If that's not heart-wrenching enough for prospective jurors, Blagojevich et al. are also accused of trying to shake down a teachers' retirement fund, withholding state work from firms that would not do business with his wife...
...children's hospital and on the Tribune, which was looking to sell the Cubs with state help. But does mere talk constitute a crime? "Genson can argue it was [just] talk, and absent any act, there's no crime," says Andrea Lyon, a professor of law at DePaul University and former head of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "It's a First Amendment issue...