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...Judson H. Miner, a Chicago civil rights lawyer who hired Obama out of law school, recalled his first encounter with the future senator...
...little trouble re-entering the practice of law,” Miner said of the time after he left his position as the head of Chicago’s legal department. “So I was reading every newspaper that came near me, and I saw an article about this black dude—this all turned out to be completely wrong factually—born in the ghettos of Chicago, raised in the slums, who got to Harvard Law School, became president of the Harvard Law Review, and was coming to Chicago to join a silk-stocking...
Then Palin saw her opening. In October 2005, Murkowski fired natural resources commissioner Tom Irwin, a well-liked "unreconstructed miner," as one political observer calls him, for opposing concessions won by producers on the gas pipeline. Immediately, six of Irwin's top aides walked out in solidarity. The mass exodus created a firestorm, with editorial writers and politicians extolling the "Magnificent Seven" and calling the mass resignations the "Thursday-afternoon massacre...
They started with pipes and air conditioners. Then they came for Dan. "They literally cut him off at the knees," says Judy Moore, vice president of the neighborhood association in Los Angeles' historic Carthay Circle. Dan is a 7-ft. (2 m) bronze statue of a gold miner that stood in a Los Angeles park for 84 years, holding his sifting pan like a deep-dish pizza. Appraisers say he's worth $125,000. In February, thieves sliced Dan in two and took him to a scrap yard to be melted down for $900. Why did a couple of crooks...
...five states have pending or signed legislation requiring people selling metal to show ID. If someone comes in with suspicious goods, scrap dealers need to ask questions like, "Why would you have 20 manhole covers anyway?" says Bruce Savage of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. When Dan the miner arrived at an L.A. scrap yard, the yard's owner called the LAPD, whose art-theft detail recognized Dan's description. The men charged with cutting Dan in two are about to go on trial, and the residents of Carthay Circle are preparing for the miner's return from...