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...former Federal Judge Michael Mukasey as Attorney General. To Republicans, it certainly does. In their eyes, President George W. Bush found a candidate that everyone could agree on. The right knows he's tough on terrorism, while the left respects his ruling that granted "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla a lawyer. "Our Democratic colleagues have repeatedly told us that the central concern in all this was the health and well-being of the Justice Department," said Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. "Yet now they say they're willing to hold up the new Attorney General...
...with a smile. That smiling face, Hu says, is the one that Beijing is presenting to the outside world. But within China, he says, conditions are worse than ever. "It's a policy of 'soft to the outside, strict within,'" says Hu. He recently hosted the wife of blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who is serving a four-year sentence ostensibly for disrupting traffic but almost certainly because of the embarrassment he caused the government of Shandong province by publicizing cases of forced sterilizations and abortions by family-planning officials. After escaping from house arrest in Shandong, Yuan Weijing spent nearly...
...fact is, however, that Kilpatrick grew up in a powerful Michigan political family. His mother, now chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, spent years in Michigan's legislature. His father was a county commissioner. A former college football captain who trained as a lawyer, Kwame Kilpatrick himself was a rising star in Michigan's legislature before being elected mayor. So he was hardly a political neophyte when he displayed behavior many view as unseemly for a sitting mayor of a major American city. For many, Kilpatrick's style and his attempts to cast himself as a racial martyr sent...
...think the Coop owns copyright on this information that should be available to students,” said Tom D. Hadfield ’08, a co-creator of the site. According to UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, discussions with an intellectual property lawyer have confirmed Crimson Reading’s position. ISBN data is similar to phone book listings, which are not protected by intellectual property law, Petersen added. Every book title has a unique ISBN number, short for “international standard book number.” The alleged new rule is just...
...canny, cigar-chomping lawyer, Karamanlis retained a consistent lead against the socialists despite a bond-trading scandal and relatively austere economic reforms that his government implemented since taking office nearly four years ago. The catastrophic fires, however, and widespread accusations of what was seen as a slow and inept state response, cast him on a sudden defensive. Facing his biggest test of leadership, Karamanlis ditched the campaign trail to manage the crisis, pushing through a fast compensation plan for victims and vowing to rebuild all burned homes. He then unveiled a flurry of financial incentives, including higher pensions...