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...allegation was made by Dana Jill Simpson, a lifelong Republican and lawyer who practices in Alabama. She made the charges in a May 21 affidavit, obtained by TIME, in which she describes a conference call on November 18, 2002, which involved a group of senior aides to Bob Riley, who had just narrowly defeated Siegelman in a bitterly contested election for governor. Though Republican Riley, a former Congressman, initially found himself behind by several thousand votes, he had pulled ahead at the last minute when disputed ballots were tallied in his favor. After the abrupt vote turnaround, Siegelman sought...
...According to Simpson's statement, William Canary, a senior G.O.P. political operative and Riley adviser who was on the conference call, said "not to worry about Don Siegelman" because "'his girls' would take care of" the governor. Canary then made clear that "his girls" was a reference to his wife, Leura Canary, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and Alice Martin, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama...
...scout in the 1st Infantry Division of Fort Riley, Kans., Genevie had to fight to get into the Army. Military doctors told him he couldn't enlist with his history of asthma and shoulder problems. But Genevie knew he could handle the training. He videotaped himself doing rigorous 20-minute workouts to show that he wouldn't slow down his unit. He even drafted a letter to President Bush asking him to intervene. Genevie never sent it because the Army eventually let him in. His mother Patricia found the letter among his things a few days after he died...
...cosponsored by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on Public Service, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Public Service Network. The meeting featured presentations by Lisa Boes, a research officer at the Bok Center, and Annie Riley ’07, a Social Studies concentrator, both of whom emphasized the program’s promise and benefits to students. Boes drew from her May 2006 Graduate School of Education doctoral dissertation, in which she examined how the ABL program had affected undergraduates in a Social Studies junior...
...authority’ involved,” Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere says.Then what exactly was the point of updating the old system of peer-to-peer mentoring, the Prefect program?Looking back on her experiences as a prefect, former UC vice president Annie R. Riley ’07 says that the downfall to the program was the lack of authority they were given when it came to the most pressing arena of advice: academics.“I think that the biggest problem was that if freshmen would ask me about academics, the trained answer...