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Keller has turned to noted defense attorney Charles "Chip" Babcock - he represented Oprah Winfrey in 1998 when the talk-show host was unsuccessfully sued for slander by Texas cattlemen. Babcock told the American-Statesman that he will question the "myth" of the computer problem and the last-minute actions of Richard's appellate lawyers. "I think our version is going to be that they just didn't do their job that day," Babcock said. It is a tactic that Neal Manne, representing the Texas Defender Service, rejects as a "sideshow" designed to deflect from the real issue - Judge Keller...
Internship programs have produced several successes: Bill Gates was once a congressional page, Oprah Winfrey worked at a CBS affiliate during her college years, and Brian Williams was a White House intern for the Jimmy Carter Administration, just to name a few. Of course, Monica Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House intern when she engaged in an intimate relationship with President Clinton, a scandal that still taints both offices...
...passing up riches to save a poor city. He moved into a decrepit Newark public-housing project, which has since been torn down, and was elected to the Newark city council at age 29. In 2006, at 37, he became mayor. To his supporters, who include A+ listers like Oprah Winfrey, Bon Jovi and Brad Pitt, plus an élite cadre of Wall Street and Silicon Valley scions, Booker's self-sacrificial tale is heroic. To his critics, Booker is still a publicity-loving political opportunist, a permanent outsider using the citizens of Newark to jump-start bigger things...
...which Olmos, playing Selena's dad, talks about how difficult it is to ride the divide between Latino and American in the United States. "We gotta know about John Wayne and Pedro Infante," he huffs. "We gotta know about Frank Sinatra and Agustin Lara. We gotta know about Oprah and Cristina." Update: We gotta know about the Jonas Brothers and RBD. In other words, we gotta be wise to the ways of more than one culture. (Watch TIME's video "Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model...
...read the Twitter article [June 15] in one go. No surprise of course that the U.S. spawned Twitter, being world leader in social dislocation, self-absorption, celebrity infatuation and ADD. What better way to ignore the person in front of you (wife, child, old friend) than to be Twittering Oprah on how to deal with her dog's ticks? John George Ronaldson McLean, Wellington...