Word: dismissals
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...resignation on Monday had already increased the questions surrounding the case. Michael Battle, the Justice Department official who made the telephone calls to dismiss six of the eight prosecutors in early December, said he was leaving his job. The Department of Justice issued a statement that described his sudden departure as long planned, having nothing to do with the controversial terminations he had to carry out. Battle, the DOJ said, had played no role in the White House-approved decision to get rid of the federal prosecutors, but had merely made the calls...
...spent most of his energy on-constitutional revision and international diplomacy-haven't captured the imagination of voters more concerned with their pocketbooks. "These are important political themes," says Minoru Morita, a liberal political analyst. "But they are not what the Japanese people are demanding." Abe's allies dismiss that line of criticism as overly simplistic, arguing that constitutional revision is a bold move that will enable Japan to take control of its destiny and reimagine itself as a nation. "Many systems in Japan haven't changed since the Meiji period, and they're not suited to today's situation...
...recently. “You can bring people much farther along if you persuade them to go with you than if you drag them.”Though her emphasis on consensus-building could raise the concern that she is too middle-of-the-road, her colleagues and friends dismiss the idea, saying that, though she consults with people, she ultimately makes her own decision with conviction.“The thing about being president of a major university is it requires an enormous amount of ability to bite your tongue, but at the same time stick...
...most disconcerting aspect of this turn of events was not that LaRouche—who is in his 80s and was more a staple of our parents’ generation—still actually has followers, but how nonchalantly Harvard students reacted to them. Most students dismiss the singing LaRouchians as simply another group of anti-war protesters...
...seemed highly unlikely a new trial would actually begin on March 19. Seitz, Watada's lawyer, said there would be scheduling conflicts and that in any case he would file an immediate motion to dismiss the case whenever it was finally reconvened. "It is my opinion that Lieut. Watada cannot be tried again because of the effect of double jeopardy," he said, contending that because it was prosecutors who asked for the mistrial, and because the judge granted the mistrial over the opposition of defense lawyers, the prosecutors could not subsequently retry Watada...