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...also cut the American Bar Association (ABA) out of the selection process, ending what has long been standard operating procedure for the last 50 years of administrations—including those of Reagan and the elder Bush—to have the ABA vet nominations. Republican politicians have often accused the ABA of being liberal...
DIED. RICHARD MUDD, 101, who spent his life trying to clear the name of his grandfather Samuel Mudd, convicted in 1865 of abetting Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, in part by setting Booth's broken leg after the assassination; in Saginaw, Mich. States passed resolutions proclaiming the elder Mudd's innocence, and Presidents Carter and Reagan wrote letters saying they believed it. Still, they said, they could not officially overturn the decision of the military court...
...murder of his teenage neighbor Martha Moxley. He has said he was nowhere near the murder scene - Moxley's home, across the street from the Skakels' in Greenwich - at 10 p.m. that Oct. 30, the time forensic experts estimate Moxley died. And last week Skakel's elder brother Rushton Jr. and cousin James Dowdle testified that the defendant left home at 9:30 p.m., drove with them to Dowdle's mansion some 20 minutes away, watched Monty Python on television and went home, arriving at about...
Though Brustein claims he had a large role in picking his successor, Woodruff is cut from a different artistic cloth than the departing elder statesman of Harvard theater...
...claims his own father used Zafran Bibi to settle a score with another villager. Khan, who until last year was in jail himself on a murder rap, says his father forced Zafran Bibi to make the rape accusation against a man who had refused to marry one of the elder Khan's daughters. After her trial began, Zafran Bibi confessed that she had accused the wrong man, and said she had actually been raped by her brother...