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...mails, calendars and phone logs of several dozen White House staff members, including Bush's chief political aide, Karl Rove. Now the agency is asking Administration officials to sign a declaration absolving reporters of the obligation to keep conversations on the matter confidential. Lawyers say this is a likely precursor to calling journalists such as conservative columnist Robert Novak--the first to reveal Plame's identity--before a grand jury. Justice Department rules require that reporters be subpoenaed only as a last resort. The staffers' permissions will lay the legal groundwork for that step. Novak's lawyer, James Hamilton...
...Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press, says asking people who are in the universe of possible suspects to sign such a document is unusual, though not unheard of. "From the prosecutors' point of view, it is likely a precursor to subpoenaing journalists to testify before a grand jury, and then asking a judge to hold them in contempt if they refuse to do so," she noted...
That's why researchers are focusing on a precursor condition called prediabetes, in which glucose levels are only slightly elevated but which may put at risk an additional 20 million Americans...
...economy is said to be threatening ours. But even by the dismal standards set by Commerce Secretaries in the past, the extraordinary recent performance of Donald Evans before the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing set a new low. What's more, Evans' speech turned out to be a precursor to action: in mid-November the Administration imposed quotas on Chinese-made bathrobes, bras and knit fabrics. Washington said it was merely enforcing a safeguard provision that China had already agreed to, though that was 2.7 million lost jobs ago. Now the fragile recovery of the global economy--and Washington...
...what everyone knew was a precursor to an ECAC title game rematch, the Big Red stormed out to a 2-0 before a crowd composed largely of the Traveling Lynah Faithful. Harvard scored three goals over the final two periods but was done in by a third-chance power-play goal with under a minute left in the second. The victory all but assured Cornell would win the Cleary Cup for the second straight season, but both teams were looking toward Albany. “We’ll see Cornell again,” Mazzoleni said after the game...