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SENTENCED. JACK ABRAMOFF, 47, Washington lobbyist who pleaded guilty to offering bribes to members of Congress; to five years and 10 months in jail, in a separate fraud case; for using a fake $23 million wire transfer--intended to prove a down payment had been made--to qualify for a loan to buy a fleet of gambling ships; in Miami. Abramoff was allowed to remain free to assist the investigation into the congressional lobbying scandal...
...Bolten was promoted, he began making the first of many calls to lawmakers of both parties, including one that pleasantly surprised Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia, vice chairman of the House Republican conference. "I'm not a big fish," Kingston admitted, "and he said, 'We're interested in what you're hearing out there and what you guys on the Hill have to say. We want your input.'" Now the challenge for the new chief, and his boss, is what to do with...
...rupturing of the ground underfoot but from seismic waves that propagate out from the fault at 8,000 or more m.p.h. While the punch packed by these waves tends to diminish as the distance from the fault increases, that's not always the case. From historical accounts, USGS seismologist Jack Boatwright has assembled a ShakeMap for 1906--a map that displays the intensity of shaking in different areas. For San Francisco and other communities close to the San Andreas, it was quite severe. But even more severe was the shaking that occurred in the city of Santa Rosa, more than...
...PRINCETON 2Senior Josh Klimkiewicz and Wilson propelled the Crimson to a harder-than-it-looked 8-2 win to sweep the twinbill from the Tigers with three combined home runs. Klimkiewicz rocketed out solo shots in the third and sixth, and Wilson iced the contest with a three-run jack in the ninth that provided the final margin.“Klimkiewicz and Wilson back to back are pretty good guys,” head coach Joe Walsh said. “You can’t make a mistake to either one of those guys. [Princeton head coach Scott...
...last nine years, and offensive coordinator for the last three. Lamb will fill both coaching slots on head coach Tim Murphy’s staff. Lamb also spent four years as the quarterbacks coach at Amherst prior to his tenure at Yale, where he first worked with Bulldogs coach Jack Siedlecki. Under Siedlecki, Lamb directed one of the better passing attacks in the Ivies while tutoring four of the Bulldogs’ most accomplished quarterbacks, but never defeated Harvard during his tenure as offensive coordinator. In 2003, his unit led the league in scoring, total offense, and passing offense. Lamb...