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...deal to provide favorable treatment for defendants in a racketeering case before him. Despite his being legally cleared, Congress determined that the evidence against Hastings was still powerful enough to remove him from the bench, which the Senate voted to do in 1989 - even though Senators Arlen Specter and Jeff Bingaman, the top Republican and Democrat who supervised the proceedings, voted against expelling Hastings from office. The impeachment proceedings were later invalidated by an appeals court judge in 1993, although that ruling was itself later vitiated by the Supreme Court. Reports on those impeachment proceedings were posted Monday evening...
...1980s and Hastings' prior, ill-fated career as a judge? Well, at least Hastings seems to realize that it won't be so easily dismissed as ancient history. He recently sent Pelosi a five-page open letter explaining his side of the story - and appended the statements of Senators Specter and Bingaman...
...previously common target size of six. Obviously this is not true for women of all cultures, as different subsets of American society often impose different standards of what is attractive. However, for those who are easily swayed by mainstream advertising and the appearances of many celebrity women, the specter of an increase in the prevalence of eating disorders looms large. The presence of a yet smaller size underneath where women already are can add a dangerous pressure to take weight loss to the extreme, and take their sizes into the negative numbers...
...long line of Massachusetts senators. Shortly after visiting the unmarked lakeside chapel, FM was startled by an old man screaming, “Stop walking, Mary! Stop walking!” The man quickly jumped into his car and drove out of the cemetery. Who knows what peripatetic specter he called after? So maybe with the screeching birds and elderly hauntings, maybe it’s best to visit Mt. Auburn with a friend. Less scary, but still interesting, is the memorial for Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first official...
...risk of taking the easy way out, I have to say that the most recent offering from Canada’s Junior Boys’ turns a neat trick: reestablishing and sustaining familiar tonal palette over the course of an entire album while eluding the joint specter of drudgery and repetition.Yet rather than a sprawling masterwork, “So This is Goodbye” is a cohesive album, whose melodic bass lines issue taut rejoinders to lazy keyboard echoes, delicate synth arpeggios, and efficient percussion—complete with judicious handclaps, especially on “First Time?...