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...progress. That review has not yet taken place, according to the University. After Epstein was charged with soliciting prostitution at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion, several politicians who had accepted campaign money from the billionaire returned the donations. They include Eliot L. Spitzer, the New York attorney general who is running for governor; Mark A. Green, a Democratic candidate for attorney general of New York; and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, according to the New York Times and New York Daily News. Harvard will not join them. “Mr. Epstein’s gift is funding important research...
...primary against Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey is that the Republicans at least have a chance to hold on to one of the seats Democrats are trying to win this November. Chafee is running about even in the polls against the man he will face this fall, former Rhode Island attorney general Sheldon Whitehouse, but Laffey was so far behind that Republicans were ready to give up on the state if he had won the primary...
...violations for more than six months unless the government deems the individual to be a danger or proves there are special circumstances. Garney, who works in the U.S. District Court in El Paso, where Posada now sits in detention, placed Posada's fate firmly in the hands of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. According to Garney, Posada can remain in detention if the Attorney General certifies he has "reasonable grounds to believe" Posada "has engaged in certain terrorist or other dangerous activity specified by statute." That certification must be reviewed by the Attorney General every six months...
...ruling, Garney simply stated, "Certification by the Attorney General is required for aliens detained either on account of serious adverse foreign policy consequences or on account of security or terrorism concerns." Nor did the government detain Posada under any "special circumstances" that, under the Patriot Act, would have allowed prolonged detention beyond the six months established previously by the Supreme Court. Many observers viewed the fact that Garney issued his ruling on September 11 as a not-so-subtle rebuke of the Bush Administration, which he seems to feel is saddling the courts with a job that is really...
...Although stranger things have happened in the past, I have full confidence the federal judge will adopt without any recommendation or comment," says Eduardo Soto, Posada's Miami-based attorney. Soto maintains the government lost its chance to go after his client as a terrorist when they initially detained him. "You have to choose whether you are going to charge someone as an immigration law violator or a terrorist," Soto says. "The individuals in Guantanamo are dealt with as terrorists. That is not what the American government decided to do with Luis Posada Carriles. They placed him in normal removal...