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...over that revelation. It confirms the widespread impression in Washington that the Federalist society has become more important as a tool for career advancement among Republican lawyers than as a forum for discussing and strengthening the conservative legal agenda. And it is tangible proof that Gonzales' team was giving weight to political and ideological purity as they assessed which U.S. attorneys they planned to retain or fire...
Just as his position on the court will become increasingly important in the upcoming season, Weissbourd hopes to expand his leadership role as well. Already, Weissbourd has taken on more responsibility over the team, putting it on himself to arrange meetings with the Harvard weight coach to set up an off-season weight-training program for the Crimson...
...Actress and pop singer Hilary Duff tells PEOPLE she did what anyone would have done after feeling the pressure from being called "Duff Puff" by the tabloids a few years back: she lost weight. With infinite maturity, blog site GIRLS TALKIN' SMACK clarifies, "Well, you know what they say, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." SCORE...
...pleading for mercy and forgiveness. One preacher, the Rev. Walter Hawkins, spoke in court with, he said, a "spirit of forgiveness. We love them and want them to come and visit us as soon as they finish their sentences." But Bibb County District Attorney Michael Jackson believed that full weight of justice still has to be imposed. The federal government may have exacted its due but Alabama had to get its hands on the trio to serve time under state law. That could mean an additional 15 years each. "I am not bending on that," said Jackson. "We can pray...
...expel the invading English from France during the Hundred Years War, as the story goes, the teenage saint was later appropriated as a symbol of the disputed province of Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1. The discovery of the false relics would also have added weight to the public campaign to canonize St. Joan, launched in 1869 by the Bishop of Orl?ans. As for the unlikely materials used by the hoaxers, Egypt became a travel destination for wealthy French following Napoleon's expedition there in 1798. Mummies, or parts of mummies, became much sought-after souvenirs...