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...Chicago, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, also the special counsel in the CIA-leak investigation, is presiding over an ongoing contracting and patronage probe that has already led to 30 indictments, including those of two lieutenants of Mayor Richard Daley. A federal official tells TIME that the bureau is looking closely at possible Daley links to the scandal, although an FBI spokesman stresses that Daley himself is not implicated to date. At the same time, former Illinois Governor George Ryan stands trial on various corruption charges (which he denies) that arose initially out of a probe into whether low-number license...
...enroll for the new prescription-drug benefit is the biggest issue. Bush claims the new plan offers valuable choices. But seniors find them paralyzing. In most states, they must select from among 40 different insurance plans when what they wanted was "a simple delivery of their prescription drugs," says Richard Fiesta, director of government and political affairs for the Alliance for Retired Americans. That is aggravated by a looming May 15 enrollment deadline...
...Book vs. Movie I don't see how Richard Corliss could pick the movie version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire over the book [Dec. 5]. While I really liked the movie?it was fast and action-packed?none of the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's books, that one included, have been able to fully capture the essence of Harry. They cannot put us inside Harry's head the way Rowling so deftly does. Marianne L. Adams Diamond Bar, California...
...shed scant new light on the president’s thinking.But perhaps the most significant line of the speech did not appear anywhere in the president’s notes and went largely unnoticed in the ensuing uproar. It was his very first sentence.Summers began with a nod to Richard Freeman, the Ascherman professor of economics, who organized the conference: “I asked Richard, when he invited me to come here and speak, whether he wanted an institutional talk about Harvard’s policies toward diversity or whether he wanted some questions asked and some attempts...
...Belated civility, humility and public-relations savvy come to mind. Robertson may also have been heeding criticism back in the States, some of the most scathing from fellow evangelical leaders who suggested that he is now a marginal figure-despite a television audience reported to be 825,000 strong. Richard Land, a key figure in the powerful and conservative Southern Baptist Convention, pronounced himself "appalled...