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...After working in private practice at the Boston law firms Parker, Coulter, Daley & White and Goodwin Procter LLP, became an assistant district attorney for Middlesex County in 1986. (See pictures of people mourning Ted Kennedy...
...Fresh off her successful prosecution in the murder trial of 19-year-old British nanny Louise Woodward, was elected Middlesex district attorney in 1998. (Woodward's conviction would be reduced to involuntary manslaughter.) Oversaw the prosecution of Catholic priests charged with child sexual abuse and the establishment of the adult-sexual-assault division...
Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley—a former Middlesex County district attorney—won the Democratic primary yesterday in the special elections to fill the United States Senate seat vacated after the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
...Just as damaging is the occupation of all or part of a school building by security forces, who use them as camps or barracks. Students are squeezed into the remaining parts of the school, which in many cases stops functioning altogether. Megha, a high school student in the Mohulia district of Jharkhand, says two-thirds of her school is occupied by troops. "We cannot go to the toilets, as they are used by camp people," she said in an interview with TIME. Other students complain of harassment - the girls feeling leered at, and the boys grilled for information about suspected...
...national average of 40. Literacy rates, too, are well below the national average of 65%. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has made development in Naxal-affected areas - including education - a priority, but the attacks and occupation threaten to undo what limited progress his government had made. In the Aurangabad district of Bihar, for example, the government approved about $28,600 to build a residential school for poor girls in late 2008. Once 10 police officers occupied part of the school this year, no family would enroll their daughters, and the school has yet to open. (See pictures of Singh...