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After John F. Kennedy’s election left his Massachusetts senate seat empty, the Kennedy family arranged for a family friend to fill the post for the next two years until the youngest Kennedy was eligible to run for the seat...
...Fitzgerald with a sense of humor." - Hugh Keefe, a Connecticut defense lawyer, comparing Durham to Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who led the investigation into the leaked identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame (Washington Post, January...
...officials, meanwhile, say they are working to avoid the prospect of post-election unrest. Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has met with Abdullah and Karzai to insist they refrain from claiming victory until results are complete. Yet the longer the process drags on and the barbs fly, analysts say, the greater the space for troublemaking. "It is dangerous for each side to keep supporters [charged up] for the future," says Nasrullah Stanikzai, a politics professor at Kabul University. (Read how a contested election result in Afghanistan may help...
...been administering 50 milligrams of propofol to Jackson intravenously every night for six weeks to treat insomnia. But according to the report, Murray said he was afraid Jackson was forming an addiction to the drug and switched medications two days before the musician died. (See a guide to the post-Michael Jackson clan...
...receiver's personal fortune will help him on one score. Burress has retained the services of a "prisoner consultant" to advise him on "what to expect while incarcerated, and how to use his period of confinement as productively as possible," as his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the New York Post. To get a sense of what Burress's counseling sessions might be like, TIME caught up with Steven Oberfest, a personal trainer and martial-arts expert who bills himself as the industry's creator. The founder of Prison Coach, Oberfest - whose background includes a 15-month stint...