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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Cesar Conda, who was an adviser to the 1996 Dole-Kemp campaign and counseled Vice President Dick Cheney on economics, also joined Romney’s committee...

Author: By Daniela Nemerenco, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: On Road to White House, an Ec 10 Stop | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...Fourth Circuit court of Virginia and, at the judge's discretion, could go free. The rare decision by a Virginia court to overturn a capital murder conviction may bolster the cases of the two other Navy sailors convicted along with Tice. Those men, Danial Williams and Joseph Dick, Jr., are serving life sentences and have filed petitions asking for clemency from Virginia governor Tim Kaine on the grounds that no physical evidence connected them to the scene of the crime and their confessions were false and coerced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throwing Out a Murder Confession — and Conviction — in Virginia | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...Though newly discovered DNA evidence has helped right close to 200 wrongful convictions in recent years, the DNA evidence that failed to link Tice, Williams and Dick to the murder was actually presented to the juries before they were convicted. What they didn't hear anything about, however, was the phenomenon of false confessions; until recently, most juries were in the same position, so it's no wonder that few confessions are ever thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throwing Out a Murder Confession — and Conviction — in Virginia | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...touring camp replica that has already appeared in the U.S., Italy, Germany and Hong Kong, where it recently drew more than 8,000 people. Photos of victims of the Kashmir earthquake, Rwandan genocide and Ethiopian famines are displayed. But behind the tragedy, the camp is testament to human resourcefulness. Dick van der Tak, MSF's executive director in Hong Kong, points to sandals made from tire scraps and toys from tin cans. "It's important to remember the normalcy of everyday life, and every person's humanity," he says. For information, go to msf.org

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tent City | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...Photos of victims of the Kashmir earthquake, Rwandan genocide and Ethiopian famines are displayed. But behind the tragedy, the camp is testament to human resourcefulness. Dick van der Tak, MSF's executive director in Hong Kong, points to sandals made from tire scraps and toys from tin cans. "It's important to remember the normalcy of everyday life, and every person's humanity," he says. For information, go to msf.org...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tent City | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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