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...other environmentalists argue that Salazar's centrism will serve him well at Interior, where he'll need to balance protection of the land and species with legitimate development of the country's natural resources. They point to his past practice in Colorado as a water-rights lawyer as evidence that he understands one of the most important environmental issues facing the U.S., as well as to his opposition in the Senate to the destructive practice of oil shale exploration in the Rocky Mountains. Industry representatives from mining and energy reacted positively to Salazar's appointment, seeing him as a pragmatist...
...graduate of Colorado College (B.A., 1977) and the University of Michigan (J.D., 1981), Salazar made his name as a lawyer on water issues. He went on to serve as executive director of Colorado's Department of Natural Resources from 1987 to 1994 and later served as the state's attorney general from...
...Lawyers predict lawsuits against the other accounting firms will soon follow. "The fact that they didn't catch the fraud leads me to believe that they blew it," says Scott Berman, a lawyer at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman who has reached settlements with auditors in similar cases in the past. "I am going to look hard at whether there is liability there...
...they really had to substantiate the gains of these funds was Madoff's own statements," says Harry Susman, a lawyer at Houston-based Susman Godfrey. "They were supposed to be the watchdogs. Why did they sign off on these funds' books...
...December 8, the day before Charter 08 was posted on a U.S.-based Chinese web site, Beijing police arrested Liu Xiaobo, a dissident and one of the document's authors and signers. His lawyer, Mo Shaoping, says Liu is still being held incommunicado over a week later, and police have not revealed his whereabouts. Liu's supporters fear he could be charged with the offense of "inciting subversion of state power." Beijing-based activist Hu Jia was convicted of the same in April and sentenced to three and a half years in prison...