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...victim—was also present yesterday in court, where he was scheduled to face a jury on charges of assault and battery with intent to intimidate. But his trial was postponed and is scheduled to begin today at 9:15 a.m., according to Middlesex D.A. spokeswoman Kathryn Norton. The victim of the alleged attack, Galo Garcia III ’05, says that as he walked on Bow Street to a Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) party in Adams House April 30, 2005, he was accosted by two white men who had been looking...
...segments have been published, but to read through them was an ordeal that rivaled the heroes' own epic quest. "There were all these pieces and different versions of the story that didn't agree with each other," says Michael Drout, Prentice associate professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. This version, however, is a definitive, coherent text. Credited as the book's editor, the force behind the volume is Tolkien's son Christopher, who spent the last 30 years collecting and synthesizing the fragments and binding them into a seamless narrative, one that will make Hurin accessible both...
...Griles, Interior's deputy secretary in George W. Bush's first term. Devaney in 2004 referred 25 possible ethics violations by Griles to the Office of Government Ethics outside of Interior. That office cleared Griles of 23 of the violations but referred the remaining two to then-Secretary Gale Norton for a decision. Devaney says Norton refused, over his objections, to take any action against her deputy...
...Griles, who left the department in January 2005, says he was cleared because all the allegations investigated by the IG were "conclusively and unquestionably proven to be false." Norton tells TIME that of the two potential violations the ethics office kicked back to her, "one was about a dinner Steve Griles had in the home of a lobbyist (which Griles paid for), and the other was a question about the definition of a 'particular matter' under federal ethics guidelines. On that latter point, I simply viewed Mr. Devaney's interpretation as legally incorrect...
...Meanwhile, Dirk Kempthorne, who replaced Norton as Interior Secretary last July, insists he's taking Devaney's "allegations concerning issues dating back to 1998 very seriously." Kempthorne points out that his first day on the job he sent a letter to Interior employees titled "Our Ethical Responsibilities." Since then, the new Interior chief says he's been preaching to his workers that when they're unsure whether something is ethical or not, "if in doubt...