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After a fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court, the wheels of justice have stopped grinding--for me, anyway. Last week I testified before the federal grand jury investigating the leak. I did so after I received a specific last-minute waiver from one of my sources, Karl Rove, the President's top political adviser, releasing me from any claim of confidentiality he might have about our conversations in July 2003. Under federal law grand jurors and prosecutors are sworn to secrecy but those who testify, like me, are under no such obligation, which...
...road. The doctors no longer require new subjects to enroll for a full two years, to track long-term survival--the heart danger seemed to kick in after about 18 months--but they are offering it as an option. Anyone who re-upped had to sign a revised waiver specifically advising them of the possible increased risk. On paper that risk wasn't much. In one study, and one study only, 2 out of 100 Vioxx users had cardiovascular incidents. The placebo group had 1 in 100. So the risk doubled. That's the headline (it's certainly...
After filing for a license in Cambridge on May 17, Ochs and Preble, who have been together for eight years, obtained a waiver of the three-day waiting period and became the first same-sex couple married in Brookline...
Committee Democrats have investigated another charge that Bolton tried to have a State Department lawyer who disagreed with him removed from a case in October. The dispute involved a request by a Louisiana-based company for a waiver to import goods from a Chinese company on which the U.S. had recently imposed sanctions. Sources familiar with the incident tell TIME that Bolton, who opposed the waiver, became angry when he learned that the State Department's legal division supported it. He went to William Taft, the department's top lawyer, to demand that Taft's subordinate be taken...
Harvard instituted the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) last year, which pledges no parental contribution for families with incomes below $40,000. The recent increase in fee waiver requests may indicate that the initiative has not deterred people from lower-income families from applying to the College...