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...Television's new reality show Election. Seasoned political strategists--and spouses--JAMES CARVILLE, 61, who helped orchestrate Bill Clinton's winning campaign in 1992, and MARY MATALIN, 52, a longtime adviser to Dick Cheney, have signed on to counsel the candidates for school president. Will this be the most serious student campaign ever? "I don't think there will be a media campaign," says Matalin. Adds Carville: "The real trick with any 61-year-old dealing with any 16-year-old is to get them to listen to a word you say. I'm remarkably unsuccessful with my own." --Reported...
...depends on the severity of the crime, according to Oliver.“One reason to permit entry without a warrant is to prevent the destruction of the evidence of a crime,” he says. “But that turns in part on how serious the crime suspected is—and ordinary marijuana possession might well not be serious enough.”Still, says Stephen Hrones ’64, a managing partner at Hrones, Garrity, and Hedges, a Boston-based law firm that specializes in criminal law, getting a warrant is relatively easy...
...greater directorial creativity. “The appeal of “Pelican” was that I have had much more freedom to play with the text, rearrange the structure, create the mood as I see fit” Dorin says. And despite the play’s serious content, directing has not been entirely devoid of comedic moments.“Rehearsing the sexual moments has been really entertaining,” Dorin says. “It’s astonishing how difficult it can be to choreograph a decent kiss, especially when it seemed like...
...government attorneys working on the case, many from outside Justice, simply got too large; the more lawyers the prosecution has working on a case, many attorneys argue, the more chances a serious mistake will be made. Martin herself works as a Transportation Security Administration lawyer, and prosecutors say she had no substantive involvement with the case, simply locating TSA files and helping arrange witness interviews. Lawyers who know her say she's an aggressive attorney but has confined herself to work in civil and administrative law, which has looser rules for admissible evidence than in criminal law. The case...
...That may well be, but even Carla Martin's e-mails to prep witnesses - which were intended to bolster the government's case - ended up pointing out a serious flaw in it. As part of their case, prosecutors are arguing that if Moussaoui had come clean about the plot, enhanced airport screening could have detected the short-bladed knives that the hijackers carried on board. But as Martin herself wrote in one of her e-mails, "There is no way anyone could say that the carriers could have prevented all short-bladed knives from going through...