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...grabs—Massachusetts and Cambridge voters have only a handful of important choices apart from the marquee gubernatorial race. Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) is expected to easily win an eighth term over Republican Kenneth Chase, a lawyer and businessman who ran against Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) in 2004 and took 21 percent of the vote. A member of the Senate since 1962, Kennedy won 73 percent of the vote in his last election. Apart from the governorship, the attorney general is the only statewide office that...
...forced sterilizations and abortions by family-planning authorities in China's Shandong province and was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for property destruction and public disturbance; after an appeals court ruled that his August conviction was marred by procedural violations, including the barring of his lawyers from the courtroom; in Linyi, China. Although the outcome of a future trial is still in doubt, Chen's supporters considered the ruling a rare victory. Said his lawyer, Li Jingsong, "At this stage, we could not have hoped for a better result...
...activity, the Iraqi government cancelled all military leave and put security forces on high alert. With much of the Sunni Triangle under an all-day curfew, pro-Saddam insurgents had few opportunities to express their reaction to the verdict; in Baghdad, there was only sporadic violence. Saddam's defense lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, warned in an open letter to President Bush that "this decision will set the country ablaze again and plunge the entire region into the unknown." However after the verdict al-Dulaimi told the Associated Press that Saddam had urged Iraqis to reject sectarian violence...
...candidate’s involvement in the cases of Carl Ray Songer, who killed a patrolman in Florida, and Benjamin LaGuer, a convicted rapist. Specifically, Healey, an alum of South House, now Cabot, has criticized Patrick for overturning Songer’s death sentence when the candidate was a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and for aiding and donating money for a DNA test in the LaGuer case. To criticize Patrick’s support of criminals, Healey’s campaign broadcasted an ad portraying a young girl being stalked by a rapist...
Nicholas Y. Crowne ’08—flanked by his lawyer, David Rich, and his father—faced Judge George R. Sprague ’60 yesterday morning in a Middlesex District courtroom...