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...Durham County district attorney, Mike Nifong, wants DNA to do the talking: he ordered samples from all the team's white players (46 of the 47), since the victim claimed her assailants were white. Nifong has yet to press charges, although he says the report from the emergency-room examination of the woman convinced him that a sexual assault took place...
Some House Republicans are starting to feel pressure at home over their hard-line stance. In Reading, Pa., a Hispanic lawyer named Angel Figueroa arranged a meeting last month for his Congressman Jim Gerlach--who faces a tight race this fall--and voters in his district who oppose the House bill, which Gerlach supported. The meeting included not only immigrant-advocacy groups but also the president of the local community college, the head of a federally funded labor-training-and-placement company, the personnel director of a mushroom-growing company and a local Catholic priest. After listening to their arguments...
...call as many as 113 witnesses over the next four to six weeks, both men must now take the stand to clear themselves after weeks of damaging testimony by ex-employees like whistleblower Sherron Watkins. In fact, several of the government's 22 witnesses testified under oath in U.S. District Court that the two men lied to investors, employees and analysts. Only they can persuasively refute those allegations, saying what they knew, when they knew it, and why they acted as they did. "They're going to have to be very good witnesses - or they're history," says Houston attorney...
...Colonel Mohammed Saber Monseffi, the chief crime officer at the 15th district police station in Kabul, brought Abdul Rahman in for questioning after a domestic dispute turned violent late last month. Says Monseffi, "He told me, 'I'm a Christian,' and I said that is not of any interest to me. I asked him why did you beat your father, why did you beat your daughters?" The fact that Rahman was Christian was secondary to his family's desire to get him out of the house, said Monseffi, who adds that his own wife is a Russian Christian...
...Farrell, who was the chief executive of Westport, one of the largest towns in the district, will be a tough opponent for Shays. She's well known in the area from her previous run, is an effective fundraiser and has a warm, engaging campaign style. She also has the natural advantage that the district leans Democratic these days; John Kerry defeated President Bush there by six points in 2004, and polls have shown 66% of people in Connecticut disapprove of President Bush's performance. "The issues are more mature" than two years ago, Farrell says. And Shays "has been carrying...