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...Middlesex District Attorney’s press office could not be reached for comment on Tuesday, and Alicia Maxey Greene, the Manhattan District Attorney’s director of public information, declined to comment. Jiggetts first refused to sign a waiver allowing him to be extradited two months...
...Luckily, a press badge got me in even ahead of the earliest arrivers. I felt like a bit of a sham as I stepped in front of a chubby 11-year-old with glasses, braces, and a wide grin that never left his face. His grandfather spoke no English but hovered behind him and smiled toothlessly. They reminded me of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as they carried the golden ticket of excitement through the nonchalant reporters piled onto the top deck, and were the first to look through the telescope that was about three times the size...
...Jimmy Carter went for flavor, not volume, on his 53rd birthday in 1977: his single cake was pistachio, reportedly his favorite. Ronald Reagan's 1981 surprise party, by contrast, featured veal, lobster, dancing - and a dozen cakes. Two years later, at the end of a televised press conference, his wife Nancy Reagan produced a small, one-candle cake for the President and another for reporters. "You understand we won't sell out for a piece of cake," quipped Sam Donaldson, then at ABC. "Oh, you've sold out for less than that," replied the President. (See TIME's politics blog...
...plan, which was first reported by the Associated Press, has been met with predictable outrage from the predictable quarters. Republican leaders - as well as quite a few Democrats - oppose bringing Gitmo detainees to the U.S. mainland on the grounds that they would pose a security threat. Senator Sam Brownback and Representative Jerry Moran, both Kansas Republicans, are leading the not-in-our-backyard brigade at Fort Leavenworth; both have denounced the task force's proposal as a bad idea. (There are indications that there may be local support for the Standish plan, which would save the 600-cell prison from...
...Perhaps anticipating opposition to the proposal for a hybrid facility, the Administration seems to be lining up a Plan B: it has referred the cases of dozens of detainees to prosecutors in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va., for possible criminal trials, according to the Associated Press. All three districts have previously prosecuted terrorism cases...