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Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington with a 28-gauge double-barreled shotgun. Unlike rifles, which fire single bullets over a wider area. Usually, the larger the game, the larger the pellets used. Because Cheney was hunting quail, he was using birdshot-not buckshot, which is bigger. Whittington was hit in the face, neck and chest at a reported distance of about...
Harvard’s top lawyer wrote this week to Institutional Investor magazine protesting its portrayal of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ role in the fate of a close colleague implicated in a U.S. government lawsuit. An article in the magazine’s January issue suggested that Summers’ friendship with Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer protected the professor—who led a controversial Harvard project to advise Russia in the 1990s—from consequences at Harvard. Seized by some Faculty members to criticize Summers, the article, “How Harvard Lost...
...police and prosecutors over who it was that actually dropped the ball. The original allegations were first made to the police, which ended up choosing not to press charges at the time, according to the Archdiocese. And when the church did ultimately talk directly to the boy's lawyer, they couldn't independently confirm the accusations against McCormack, who was allowed to stay on as pastor at the church and basketball coach in the parish school...
...Whittington suffered a minor heart attack from Dick Cheney?s birdshot, his big concern was not his own health but the image of Texas hunting left by the incident. Speaking in a raspy voice while sitting up in a chair at a Corpus Christi hospital, the 78-year-old lawyer told sheriff?s deputies from Kenedy County that no one had been drinking while hunting on the Armstrong Ranch last Saturday. They had been following all the rules-both Cheney and Whittington were dressed in blaze-orange vests and hats-and it was all just an accident that Cheney, following...
...things are done on Capitol Hill. Granted, many lobbyists chase pork and members of Congress regularly exchange favors with webs of family and ex-aides. But Shockey's straddling of K Street and Capitol Hill is particuarly poignant and visible-even if, as in most cases, his lawyer and spokesman say it is all perfectly legal...