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...compromise. Prosecutors dropped a second-degree murder charge against the Canadian-born defendant in exchange for her plea of no contest to a count of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of administering and furnishing narcotics to Belushi. Instead of a possible 25 years to life, she faces a maximum of eight years and eight months. Deputy District Attorney Elden Fox conceded that the accused ''honestly believes from a moral standpoint that she is not responsible for his death.'' Still, he will push for a three-year prison term. Said Fox: ''Cathy Smith is paying far less of a price...
...reduced sentence, the Administration redoubled its efforts, pressing Congress to authorize the military tribunals, which it did by passing the Military Commissions Act during the waning days of the Republican Congress in the fall of 2006. Hamdan was recharged under the Military Commissions Act and moved into a new maximum-security facility. There he was permitted only an hour or so of indirect contact with other detainees during his daily recreation period. (He had to exercise alone, but his chain-linked recreation pen adjoined several others...
...Which is why bringing the party together - and bringing Clinton's big donors into the fold - is important. Even if her donors don't give the maximum of $2,300 to Obama, there's a lot they can help with elsewhere. "It is a lot to put on one person," said a Democratic strategist familiar with Clinton's fund-raising machine. "But at the same time, the Hillary people, the institutional, longtime party donors - they will be there, they will start to give." Many have not yet given to the DNC, or the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees, which...
...have invested increasing amounts of ego into their work. But most would probably have at least mouthed the platitude that they were as much messengers as auteurs. And since the faith awakened or sustained by their work was its most important attribute, they probably would have hoped for maximum exposure - which can be at odds with free market economics, portracted lawsuits, or the bitter taste that accompanies literary bickering. "Well gosh," says Prothero of the Sallman portrait, "that image could be preaching the gospel more effectively if it were available to everyone...
While Harvard will rely "to the maximum extent practicable" on reducing its own emissions to meet the targets, it will also "need to acquire or create high-quality carbon offsets in order to meet the recommended goals." Carbon offsets are the practice by institutions or governments finance emissions reductions—such as by planting trees or paying for energy efficiency programs—in other parts of the world...