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...There's a civil war going on in the Republican Party here," says David Berman, a professor emeritus with Arizona State University and a longtime observer of Arizona politics. "The division has severed off the business people from the social conservatives." Berman says that McCain's allies fought Pearce fiercely in the GOP primary for an open state senate seat, going so far as hiring hard-hitting political consultant Nathan Sproul to hammer away at Pearce. "They hired one of the sleaziest operators around," says Berman, "who used to only do this thing to Democrats...
...your money, not theirs. When Lehman Bros. filed for bankruptcy on Monday, it was careful to spell out that its investment management division - including Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers Asset Management - were not subject to the parent company's bankruptcy filing. Fully paid securities of customers of Neuberger Berman are not subject to the claims of creditors...
...problem: "It doesn't leave much time to integrate the running mate into the campaign and get them up to speed," says veteran Democratic convention planner Michael Berman. With the convention already pushed almost to Labor Day, a slow-starting No. 2 might not be fully deployed, with staff and stump speech, "until sometime in September, and I think that's too late," Berman concludes...
...Ohio case reflects a long-standing uncertainty about the role of emotion in the application of the law, according to Doug Berman, an Ohio State University law professor and criminal-sentencing expert. He says that Phillabaum's motion is "part of a perhaps misguided attempt to suggest that the law is all rational and not based on emotion...
...murder victim's family to wear buttons with a picture of the deceased during a trial. After much debate, the Supreme Court overturned a U.S. Court of Appeals decision and ruled that the buttons were permissible. "There is a tendency to assume that any emotion is necessarily distorting," Berman explains, but as the Supreme Court case showed, "that's overly broad." Emotional displays may simply enhance the issue at hand, not obscure or manipulate...