Word: nonpartisans
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...months ago, I wrote that TIME would sponsor a presidential debate in New Orleans. I'm delighted to join hands with a local organization spearheading that effort: Women of the Storm, a nonpartisan group of women whose families were affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. They have already persuaded six candidates to write a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates supporting the idea. "A debate would keep a spotlight on New Orleans and the challenges we face," says Anne Milling, founder of Women of the Storm. "We're not whole...
...Jeanne has been an effective engaged, nonpartisan leader of the Institute of Politics, and we are truly sorry to see her go,ā€¯ he said in a written statement...
...post-Gonzales DOJ would be in the hands of a nonpartisan, tough prosecutor, not a political hand. Newly appointed Deputy Attorney General Craig Morford is in line to take over until a new Attorney General could be confirmed. Morford, a 20-year veteran of the department, was brought in to investigate the botched trial of the first major federal antiterrorism case after 9/11. He is in the mold of James Comey, the former Deputy Attorney General who stood up to the White House over its domestic-eavesdropping program. Even New York Senator Charles Schumer, one of Gonzales' harshest critics, called...
...fact that it is a Harvard-based project does have its advantages, including the large resource pool that is the students, according to co-director Joseph E. Aldy, a fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C. think tank...
...beef is not so much with prosecutors breaking the rules, although plenty do. In 2003 the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity found that prosecutorial misconduct led to charges being dismissed, convictions reversed or sentences reduced in more than 2,000 cases since 1970. Davis' greater worry is all the behavior considered within bounds but outside any reasonable notion of fair play. She points to a case's early stages to show the power prosecutors have for abuse--and how she would fix the system...