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...made the official language of the E.U. justice system. Arguing that French "reduced the risks of differing interpretations" in a way no other language could, the manifesto - authored by Académie Française member Maurice Druon, Paris Bar Association president Jean-Marie Burguburu and the state prosecutor of France's highest court, Jean-François Burgelin - calls for "all texts of legal or normative nature engaging the members of the Union" to be written in French. "This is built on a Napoleonic-era pretension that French is somehow more airtight than other languages," sighs Jacques Bille...
Boston Legal, yet another David E. Kelley yarn about a pack of attractive Beantown lawyers, follows Housewives at 10, but it just can’t compete. While the show features the brilliant James Spader in its central role as a creepy-but-likeable prosecutor, Spader’s enjoyable presence is canceled out by William Shatner’s burnt-out senior partner (a living metaphor for ol’ Captain Kirk’s career, perhaps?) and the obnoxious camerawork...
...problems may not be over. A Texas grand jury has indicted three of his close aides on charges of funneling illegal corporate money to Texas state elections. The House ethics panel was asked to look at DeLay's involvement in the scheme but decided to wait for the Texas prosecutor to finish his probe. And Senate and federal grand jury investigations of lobbyist and DeLay fund raiser Jack Abramoff--who allegedly has defrauded Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars in inflated fees--are exploring his boasts of access to DeLay. People close to DeLay have been subpoenaed...
Karl Rove, one of President Bush?s top White House aides, testified this morning before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name by administration sources. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald questioned Rove about his contacts with journalists in what a source familiar with Rove's situation said was his third appearance before the grand jury. "My client appeared voluntarily before the grand jury and has cooperated with the investigation since it began," said Rove's attorney Robert Luskin. "He has been assured in writing as recently as this week that he is not a target...
...Novak?s status continues to be a mystery; neither he nor his lawyer, Jim Hamilton, will talk about their contacts with prosecutors. Lawyers for other witnesses in the case have concluded that Novak is cooperating, since he has not been held in contempt. But even if Novak is cooperating and has revealed his sources, these lawyers say, Fitzgerald would want to talk to other journalists to strengthen any case he might bring. And the prosecutor may be seeking to substantiate a Sept. 2003 Washington Post story, which quoted an administration source saying that two top White House officials disclosed Plame...