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...them are a suspect at this stage," Shields said earlier this week. Investigators interviewed captain Inzamam-ul-Haq a second time just before he left Jamaica and asked him why before Woolmer's death he had moved from a room on the 12th floor near his coach to the fifth floor. Because he wanted to be closer to the players, explained Inzamam. Pakistan's bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed was likewise grilled about a cut on his nose, which he says happened in training; photos back his claim...
...strangest event so far in the U.S. attorney-firing mess may be the decision by a Justice Department lawyer to plead the Fifth rather than risk incriminating herself in testimony before Congress Thursday...
...Before Goodling, 33, can assert the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, she must believe that her testimony could somehow lead to evidence that she committed a crime. So what's the crime she's worried about? The mention of Libby suggests that it's perjury, but as Professor Orin Kerr, a criminal law expert at George Washington Law School, points out, you can't take the Fifth to avoid being prosecuted for lies you plan to tell under oath...
...against her, no matter what she says under oath. Her lawyer's letter alludes to this by mentioning that some members have already decided they were lied to by Bush Administration officials, and plan to "use the hearings to promote [their] political party." As a reason to plead the Fifth, though, "That's a new one," says Kerr. "I don't think I've ever come across that one before...
...weeks, the Harvard sailing team was finally out in full force last weekend, as the No. 4 co-ed squad and the No. 6 women’s team sailed in a total of three regattas along the East Coast, picking up a third-, a fourth-, and a fifth-place finish in the spring season’s fourth weekend of action. While the Northeast was where the bulk of the Crimson competed over the weekend, the most important practice still came from preparing for Nationals at Navy. “We wanted to get some time sailing and getting...