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...dean of the Medill School of Journalism, says the students should be considered reporters and therefore be protected by a 1982 Illinois shield law that protects reporters from having to divulge information to officials, absent a compelling public interest. He says the school will vehemently contest the prosecutor's request in court and will only turn over on-the-record documents and statements - not background information or any private grades or grading criteria. "It's simply beyond belief that [prosecutors] who are committed to courts being open and understood by the public would want to stop anyone from covering them...
...state attorney's office did not respond to TIME's request for a statement. Alvarez was quoted by the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 20 as calling the students "investigators" instead of reporters. And Alvarez's chief of staff, Dan Kirk, is quoted as saying the purpose of the subpoena is to ensure that students did not approach the case with a bias and that grades in the class weren't tied to the results of the investigation. Kirk said this could undermine the information's legitimacy in the event of a retrial. Lavine calls the notion "insulting." "The prosecutor...
...thought I was working for you already. I mean, that's what I always thought. [The foreign company] was just a front." - Allegedly responding to an undercover FBI agent's request that he work for Israeli intelligence by saying that he thought he already was (Conversation dated Sept. 3, 2009, according to the affidavit...
...bite from the University of California, Los Angeles. The university wanted to interview him but wouldn't pay the airfare. "I was laid off and running out of funds," says Bhadran. "I couldn't fly on my own dime." He suggested interviewing by Skype. He got his request - and the job. (See the best social-networking applications...
...went in, but how to get out - our head[s] are splitting from this. Of course we can just pull out fast, without thinking of anything and blame the former leadership who started all this." The dilemma may sound familiar as the Obama Administration weighs General Stanley McChrystal's request for 40,000 more troops, but the quote comes from Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party, during a debate that raged in the Kremlin during 1986 and 1987. Moscow was grappling with some of the same issues eight years after the Red Army invaded Afghanistan that President...