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Edwards, an attorney and author, took on a high-profile role in her husband's 2008 presidential campaign, calling for more attention to be paid to children's issues and for Americans to engage in public service...
...that don't gobble up land have real potential, but even cellulosic ethanol increases overall emissions when its plant source is grown on good cropland. "People don't want to believe renewable fuels could be bad," says the lead author, Tim Searchinger, a Princeton scholar and former Environmental Defense attorney. "But when you realize we're tearing down rain forests that store loads of carbon to grow crops that store much less carbon, it becomes obvious...
Adams (Paul Giamatti) didn't catch many breaks. He wasn't tall and commanding like Washington, wildly gifted like Ben Franklin or silver-tongued like Jefferson--and, he notes, he doesn't have an inheritance, so he must work for a living as an attorney. This colors his personality; Giamatti plays him as a trudging bulldog, noble but vain, intellectual but provincial, idealistic but cautious. And it colors his politics, giving him a darker view of life than those of his colleagues with cleaner fingernails...
...disability arose after she fell twice on the job in 2004. According to the complaint, she “left Harvard in unbearable pain” on Sept. 6, 2004 and never returned to work. The University paid McGahey disability benefits for two years. McGahey’s attorney, Paul M. Stein, said that after two years of being disabled, the University’s definition of what constitutes this status changes, and that the University now contends that McGahey no longer fits this category. “The Harvard interpretation of that change in the definition will...
...preserve the right to do so, even if it?s at some future time. Waterboarding is torture. John McCain just said that on "60 Minutes" last night. It's clearly torture, and it?s clearly illegal. And the idea that [U.S. Attorney General] Michael Mukasey - the highest law-enforcement official in the land - would say that he's "not quite sure" whether or not it's legal is astounding to me. I think we've gone a long way - or this Administration has gone a long...