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Patrick—a onetime Dunster resident, former litigator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton administration—said that the law had “suspect origins” and was originally intended to prevent out-of-state interracial couples from marrying...
...Christopher F. O. Gabrieli ’81 both said they would allow Massachusetts to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples from out-of-state. That would require the repeal of a 1913 law—a law that the third candidate, State Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, has enforced...
According to James Lopata, editor of GLBT magazine “In Newsweekly” and a forum organizer, a Reilly campaign press officer said a scheduling conflict kept the state attorney general from attending...
However, ordinary Afghans do criticize Karzai and his government for failing to improve anything else. The most common complaint is the pervasiveness of official corruption. Karzai says he has addressed the problem by appointing a new attorney general and a chief justice, but no one expects results. Electrician Shapoor Malik Zada, 42, says he doesn't have electricity in his house because he refused to pay the $140 in extra "fees" to hook up his connection a few months ago. Now, he says, a standard bribe runs $600. (The average annual income is about $300 per capita.) Another man, Samiullah...
...Still, some doubt that Congress will pass the new law - and, even if it does, whether such a law could be made retroactive to apply to Lay. "Even this Congress is not going to be party to an attempt to criminalize Ken Lay," says attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer, What it Takes to Win "when the law has declared him innocent...