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Legal wrangles have always been part of celebrity chic, but more stars are finding second callings on the right side of the law. From superheroes to starlets, Hollywood's finest are suiting up to serve and protect...
...system works better when witnesses testify voluntarily instead of being coerced by the court. "It's a battle of who can control the witness--the state or the street," he says. "And justice suffers when that happens." Baltimore, like many state and local governments, lacks the resources to protect witnesses after they have testified. The Baltimore witness-assistance program used to be called witness protection, but with a shoestring budget and local motels doubling as witness safe houses, officials realized they couldn't always live up to the protection promise. Unlike the federal witness-protection program for turncoat mobsters...
...Senator Charles Schumer of New York reintroduced a bill this month that would help. It would provide nearly $100 million in federal funding to help local and state governments protect witnesses. Inspired by the murder of a crime witness in Brooklyn in 2002, the bill foundered when it was first submitted three years ago, but Schumer says the issue is too important to give up on. "Every day, witnesses who are willing to stand up in court and testify about a violent crime in their community put their lives on the line for the sake of justice," said Schumer...
...thing to rebuff reporters to protect some policy or principle, a right Cheney has asserted many times before. But this time the only thing Cheney was protecting was himself. If Rule No. 1 of damage control is Get the news out fast, the second is Don't embarrass the boss. Breaking both rules at once is a poor idea. White House counselor Dan Bartlett, communications director Nicolle Wallace and McClellan all recommended to Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card, and his deputy Karl Rove on Sunday, the day after the shooting, that the White House make an immediate statement...
...between the two men, Bogdanor continues, will be "ones of emphasis and style rather than anything fundamental." Cameron, for his part, has learned from Blair's assiduous courting of the "middle ground" of politics, and has spent the last three months talking about the need to relieve poverty and protect the environment - not themes for which the Tories were once best known. George Osborne, who shadows Brown for the Tories, manfully insists there are "real differences" between the two parties, while conceding that the differences are "not quite as fiery as they once were." Then he gives the game away...