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Blagojevich, Rod •eagerness of to explain self, and excitement of public at the prospect of hearing the unexplainable attempted to be explained by •need of to have special hairbrush within reach at all times •photo of with - of all people! - Richard Nixon surfaces...
...Asked why he would take Blagojevich's case - given that the two-term governor reportedly owes another law firm upwards of $2 million, was denied by the Illinois Attorney General state funds to pay for the impeachment hearings and is facing the prospect of having his campaign fund frozen by the feds - Genson was his usual mischievous self. "I take the cases that are fun," he said. As best-selling author and famed lawyer Scott Turow put it in an e-mail to TIME, "He is a great lawyer who would have been almost as good as a circus ringmaster...
...some, the hiring halt seems a precursor to more drastic cuts. “It’s not possible to say that no one will be laid off,” said Richard E. Kaufman, a librarian in the psychology department. “I think that prospect is real, and that’s something that should be alarming.” Robyn Ochs, technology and publications specialist in the romance languages department, said she hopes Harvard will employ its resources to protect current staff members—even if it requires reshuffling positions. “People...
...Nevertheless, after a dispiriting few months in which Thais have seen their country's near-term economic prognosis go from ailing to moribund - in large part because of the anti-government protests that convulsed Bangkok and scared away tourists and foreign investors since August - the prospect of a Prime Minister who will not cause hundreds of thousands of yellow-shirted protesters to flood the streets must be a relief. True, Thaksin's supporters, who wore red clothes during their rallies to contrast with the opposition's yellow shirts, are hardly pleased. But in a sign that there...
...power at all but still able to find ways to make things worse. Case in point: on Sunday, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed announced that he had fired the Prime Minister, and 24 hours later, parliament rebuffed him. The standoff has further hardened the political paralysis that has denied any prospect of peace to the country's long-suffering people...