Word: prosecutor
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...latest murder charges filed yesterday in the Ruby Ridge case appear to have shocked locals, who remain divided over who was in the wrong in the FBI standoff with white separatist Randy Weaver five years ago. "Most people thought this was over," says TIME's Judy Hanson. "Why this prosecutor has decided to press charges now is anyone's guess." It may have to do with the fact that Boundary County prosecuter Denise Woodbury is new to the job. Woodbury has only been in office for about seven months. Now by opening the Ruby Ridge wound, she has already angered...
...prime article of faith among the new mayors is that city employees must become more efficient. Rendell, a Democrat and a tough-talking former prosecutor, is widely credited with saving Philadelphia by going eyeball-to-eyeball with the city's powerful public-employee unions shortly after he took office in 1992. Rendell offered workers a contract that froze wages for 33 months and cut back on paid holidays. After a 16-hour strike, the unions capitulated. Under Rendell, a city that was cited five years ago by City and State magazine for setting "the standard for municipal distress...
...send drug-soaked Mexico a man he characterized as soft on drugs. (Weld approves of medicinal marijuana.) Although a fiscal conservative, Weld is too liberal on things like abortion and gay rights to pass muster with Helms. And the Senator still harbors a grudge against Weld, a former U.S. prosecutor, for resigning from the Reagan Justice Department in 1988 and taking a swipe at then Attorney General Ed Meese on his way out the door...
...political process, much of it illegal, and much of the illegal part [is] of foreign origin," he told TIME. This week he will prod intelligence officials to make public more information about the mysterious Chinese plot to influence U.S. elections. And Democrats will get a chance to play prosecutor, describing the Republicans' own China connection: alleged money laundering by former G.O.P. chief Haley Barbour...
...also listened to a tape of a phone conversation recorded by Ms. Jackson in January in which she haggled with Cosby's lawyer, threatening "I have offers and I will go through with those offers," apparently from the tabloid newspaper the Globe. That was about "greed, not need," claimed prosecutor Paul Engelmayer. The jury must have agreed...