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...Francisco bureau chief David Margolick, who is covering the case for the Times, wrote two articles in December about courtroom wrangles over a sheriff's deputy who claims to have overheard remarks Simpson made in a jailhouse conversation with former Los Angeles Rams lineman Roosevelt Grier, who is now a minister. Although the deputy was not permitted to state in court what he had heard, Margolick decided to quote the only previously published account of the remarks -- from the Dec. 20 issue of the Enquirer. "Simpson exclaimed, 'I did it!' " Margolick wrote, adding that "The Enquirer stands by its article...
...been paying into Social Security since 1938 -- one year after workers began contributing to President Roosevelt's new program -- and amazingly, he pays into it still. At age 78, Harlow Savage prides himself on showing up at the office, dapper in his tweed jacket with walking cane, every workday morning at the engineering company that he founded in Bloomfield, Connecticut. If anyone has earned his retirement benefits, it would seem, it is Savage. But he doesn't see it that way. Though he still has Social Security taxes deducted from his six-figure salary, Savage and his wife also receive...
...five board members, who will begin serving on December 15, include one previous member, Paul Flynn, and one member of the water department who had served as an advisor to the Water Board, Joseph Harrington. The three new members are Kevin Rogers, Ann Roosevelt and Jonathan Yen Nicoloro said...
...punitive -- not to mention odd, coming from a man who was born to a 16-year-old mother eight months after she left his abusive father. It would violate federal law, which mandates family- based care over institutions, and ignore the public policy consensus -- first expressed by the Teddy Roosevelt White House -- that "no child should be deprived of his family by reason of poverty alone...
...Democratic Party has spawned Roosevelt, Kennedy and O'Neill; the Republicans have given us Nixon and McCarthy. The word "liberal" is a progressive one with a long and proud history in this country and, by refusing to carry its standard high, the representatives of the Democratic Party are doing a disservice to all those who have fought on the legislative front, the legal front, and even the battlefront to establish its ideals...