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...committee will be led by Ralph C. Martin II, the former Suffolk County district attorney and currently a managing partner at the Boston law firm Bingham McCutchen.Faust wrote that the review was prompted in part by an incident that occurred Aug. 8 in which HUPD officers, responding to a call, confronted a person attempting to remove a lock from a bicycle.According to the HUPD police log, the individual was determined to be the owner of the bicycle and an affiliate of the University after questioning by officers. The person has since been identified as a black high school student from...
...Some people call conventions mere pomp and pageantry, a time for the good old boys to wring hands, pat each other’s backs, and schmooze with each other before attending a superficial exercise to nominate a candidate who has already won the primaries. But that’s not what I saw. What I saw—all the way from an incredible portrait exhibit in the daytime convention center, where every issue group imaginable caucused each day, to my seat in a club space at Invesco Field—was a party comprised of incredibly varied...
...Iraq. Petraeus evidently "doesn't think it's worth taking any more risks in Iraq to be able to shift more force to Afghanistan," said John Nagl, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former Petraeus adviser. A resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan has led both presidential candidates to call for sending more U.S. troops there...
...everyone is just looking for temporary shelter. Since Gustav, Bruce Kammer, a Pearl County, Miss., realtor, says he's received calls from New Orleanians saying, "We've had enough. I want to come up and see what you've got." Lucky for them, in the three years since Katrina, scores of homes have been built. But prices there are often in the $230,000 to $260,000 range - well above the $140,000 to $170,000 similar properties commanded before Katrina. Kammer's selling points include the fact that towns like Picayune and Poplarville, about 50 miles east...
...Recent post: Upcoming conference call between Sarah Palin and oil company executives about the state's plan pipeline plans...