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...alleged victim, known only as "A", has publicly voiced her wrath. After Mazuz announced the plea bargain, A told a press conference that the Attorney General had "cast her away like a grain of dust." The former presidential staffer detailed how Katsav allegedly advanced from making harassing phone calls - she claimed he demanded that she wear a skirt with no underwear to work - to locking her in the presidential office, pinning her against the desk and raping her. Katsav has denied A's allegations. Justice Ministry staffers were stunned by A's performance. "She said things in her press conference...
...move that has reduced influence peddling. Friends say Mazuz, the son of poor but scholarly Tunisian immigrants, likens himself to a surgeon, cutting away corruption before it spreads into the body politic. He works relentlessly, immersing himself in the details of a case. "Mazuz has the lowest cell-phone bills in the Justice Ministry," jokes one aide. "He hardly makes any calls - and seldom takes them, no matter who it is." But critics say this attention to the grains of fact may have blinded him to the broader implications of the Katsav case, and the risk of a public backlash...
...assholes,'" he says. "Sometimes I would bomb. I'd talk about personal stuff and instead of laughing, people would look at me like, 'Oh, man, I'm so sorry.'" The potty-mouthed-preteen act only took him so far, so at age 11 LaBeouf found an agent. In the phone book. "I called up and did my 5-min. routine," he says. "Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping. They liked the fact that I tried." LaBeouf's agent, who still works on his team, paid for head shots, drove...
Estimated number of iPhones sold by Apple the first weekend of its launch at Apple and AT&T stores. Apple ran out of iPhones at more than half its stores. AT&T sold out the phone at most of its 1,800 stores...
...team at Yale, likened the data-collecting process to a clinical trial for a new drug. "In a clinical trial, one group gets the medication and one group gets the placebo," he says. "We're using the same research design, only [instead] of medication we're using phone calls, direct mail, canvassing and other means of contacting young people to get them to vote." The results are then compared to the "placebo" group, who get no targeting...