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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...
...Canary reassured others on the conference call - who also included Riley's son, Rob, and Terry Butts, another Riley lawyer and former justice of the Alabama supreme court - that he had the help of a powerful pal in Washington. Canary said "not to worry - that he had already gotten it worked out with Karl and Karl had spoken with the Department of Justice and the Department of Justice was already pursuing Don Siegelman," the Simpson affidavit says. Both U.S. attorney offices subsequently indicted Siegelman on a variety of charges, although Leura Canary recused herself from dealing with the case...
...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...