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...most senior prosecutor and ensured that the law was properly and aggressively enforced.Evidently, political connections are more important to the attorney general than his responsibilities to the people of the Commonwealth. Reilly did indeed involve himself in the case. He involved himself by calling Conte and asking him to protect the privacy of the girls by not releasing their toxicology reports to the media. The girls’ father, Christopher Murphy, happens to be a friend of Reilly’s who donated $300 to his gubernatorial campaign in June. Conte did as the attorney general suggested, and more. Saying...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: One Phone Call | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

...Insurgents have kidnapped 36 reporters since April 2004, when abductions surged, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Most were released, but RAI correspondent Enzo Baldoni, an Italian, was killed in August 2004. Steven Vincent, an American freelancer, was killed in Basra in August 2005. The number of Iraqi journalists killed or kidnapped is much higher. ?Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism,? said Aidan White, General Secretary for the International Federation of Journalists. ?No journalist is safe once they take to the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Abduction of Jill Carroll | 1/10/2006 | See Source »

Indian tribes: Abramoff lobbied on their behalf mainly to protect their casino interests?thwarting competing ventures and legislative moves to tax gambling revenues. He and partner Michael Scanlon, a former aide to Congressman Tom DeLay, were also secretly playing off their clients against one another and bilking them of millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Raise Cash... Disguise Its Sources... And Buy Influence | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

...When you’re under here it’s extremely loud, especially under the bell,” says Campbell. He wears earmuffs to protect his ears, but he says he can still hear the bell and loves it. “By doing it every 10 seconds it really does sound pretty good,” he says...

Author: By Shifra B. Mincer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: History, Habits Clash in Bells | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

Part of the job of the Office of Legal Counsel is to protect the authority of the President. And in that department, Alito seemed to support expanding the power of the presidency in ways that worry congressional Democrats today. He was part of the Litigation Strategy Working Group, a team of about a dozen officials that Attorney General Edwin Meese appointed to help embed Reagan's philosophy more deeply into the legal system. In a 1986 memo to the group, Alito proposed to have Reagan issue "signing statements," defining exactly how the President understood a law's meaning, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cool Fervor of Judge Alito | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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