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...federal recognition, which is needed to own a casino. They bypassed the traditional regulatory process and piggybacked on a lawsuit filed by a group of Northern California Indians who claimed the Federal Government had improperly terminated their tribes in the 1960s. When a judge ruled in the group's favor in 1991, the Lyttons were also formally recognized...
...jogger. Citing new DNA evidence that corroborated Reyes' involvement in the crime and noting discrepancies in the earlier confessions, Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau last week asked a judge to throw out the convictions of the five men. District Judge Charles J. Tejada is expected to rule in their favor, opening the door for the five to file civil lawsuits. But whatever he does will undo little. The last of the men, now in their late 20s, completed his sentence in August...
...shed its graphically/visually challenged image the moment it met Sarah P. Law. Sarah glides through campus on a bike, constantly on FM’s call, ready to drop her orgo books in favor of hotter FM assignments. Slaw, as she is called when FM refers to her by her e-mail address, stands out from other photogs for her dazzling style and utter chutzpah. She wasn’t afraid to tell FM’s 15 seniors to stand up on their chairs so she would be able to snap impeccable shots of their uproarious presentations. And speaking...
Others cite the addition of Banaji—another female Indian professor in social psychology who arrived from Yale in 2000 after being once denied tenure by Harvard in 1996—as a factor that did not work in Ambady’s favor...
...liberal whom Republicans will delight in caricaturing as a "San Francisco Democrat," Ford would have been, in his own words, "hard to put in a box." Republicans would have had difficulty pigeonholing a black, 32-year-old, three-term Congressman who voted against Bush's tax cuts but in favor of such conservative perennials as the prayer-in-school and anti-flag burning constitutional amendments and repeal of the death tax. He thinks it's time for Democrats to stop "telling people what they already know" about the shortcomings of Bush's policies and propose some ideas of their...