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...judge in the assault case of suspended football captain Matthew C. Thomas ’06–’07 has rejected a request from Thomas’ lawyer to place a gag order on the Middlesex District Attorneys Office, according to DA spokeswoman Melissa Sherman. Pointing to coverage of Thomas’ arrest in news outlets including The Boston Globe, The Associated Press, and The Crimson, Thomas’ lawyer, Michael J. McHugh ’73, requested the gag order during a pre-trial hearing on July 19, 2006. The judge in the case, George...
Thomas currently faces charges of assault and battery, breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, and destruction of property in Cambridge District Court for a June 5 incident in his ex-girlfriend's Currier House dorm room...
...this year's congressional election a contest between competing national agendas, the reality is that it is just as much a series of local races with their own particular issues and considerations. So while Republican John Hostettler, who is in a tough race to keep his seat in a district around Evansville, Indiana, has made the Pledge vote the subject of his weekly podcast for constituents, three Republicans from Connecticut, all in close reelection races in a blue state, have very different priorities...
...employees, and Ohio's Bob Taft has a 78% disapproval rating, after pleading no contest to accepting free golf outings from a prominent Republican activist in the state last year. "The Governors are a very big problem in the Midwest," says Mark Souder, a House Republican in an Indiana district who, unlike some of his colleagues, is still considered a heavy favorite to win reelection. "There is no other way to 'punish' the governor...
...Zack Space and links him to his "ultra-liberal" friends: Howard Dean, George Soros and Nancy Pelosi. The Democrats seem to be responding to the tactic. It's difficult to find the word "Democrat" on the web site of Brad Ellsworth, the Democrat running against Hostettler in the Evansville district. And Ellsworth's campaign manager, Jay Howser, calls his candidate "a Southern Indiana Democrat," to distinguish him from the rest of the party. "Democrats need to show their local roots," says Pete Brodnitz, a Democratic pollster who is working on Kilroy's race...