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Quotes About: "I can easily say she was one of the best trial lawyers I've ever seen. Certainly one of the top 5%." - Retired superior court judge Robert Barton, who during his 21 years on the bench presided over Coakley in court (Lowell...
...Pakistani officials say that following a tip-off by the FBI, they began tracking the five men as soon as they landed in Karachi in late November. They then allegedly traveled to the city of Hyderabad and finally to Sargodha, 120 miles south of Islamabad. "We wanted to see who they were meeting, whether it was Taliban or Lashkar or Jaish," says an official who asked not to be named. (Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad are among several terrorist groups active in Punjab province...
...total stimulus price tag past the $1 trillion mark. For starters, he never used the word stimulus in his Dec. 8 speech to describe the new effort, perhaps because according to a Rasmussen survey, that's a concept that only one-third of Americans support. Nor did he say how much the new programs would cost. He gave few details of how they would be paid for, and he never explained when the plan would go into effect. As he has done in the past, the President is leaving most of those details to Democrats in Congress, who are likely...
Despite Ssempa's beliefs, experts say the law would impede efforts to stem the spread of HIV and AIDS, especially among the category of "men who have sex with men" - the terminology often used because of the stigma around being openly gay or bisexual. Many homosexuals marry or date women and identify themselves as heterosexual even though they are sleeping with men. That community is disproportionately affected by the disease in sub-Saharan Africa, in part because of a long-standing unwillingness on the continent to acknowledge homosexuality. Indeed, the situation is one of double jeopardy, combining the pariah status...
...held meetings with LGBT groups about the possibility of prevention work among the community. The Ugandan government accused him of holding secret meetings with groups "that promote homosexuality." Since then, Western aid officials have been decidedly silent on the topic of homosexuality and HIV. Officials at UNAIDS, for example, say their organization has adopted a formal policy not to comment on the proposed law. A UNAIDS official in Uganda, who declined to be identified, says the group believes "quiet diplomacy" is the best approach...