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...court decision didn't address whether Andersen obstructed justice when it destroyed documents that could have proved valuable to the federal probe of accounting fraud by its client Enron Corp. The high court simply found fault with the instructions Judge Melinda Harmon gave the jury at the prosecution's request. The jury, it said, should have been clearly told that an intent to conceal wrongdoing was essential to finding Andersen guilty...
...OIP—in consultation with the Harvard Office of General Counsel (OGC)—reviewed and revised the restriction guidelines last July, the University’s travel restrictions were extended to cover all countries receiving any level of State Department warning, including the relatively mild request that travelers “carefully weigh the necessity of their travel” in light of the risks involved...
...worked for the New York Times throughout the 1960s, much to the chagrin of Washington officials, who were angered by his incisive reports—famously, President John F. Kennedy ’40 even personally requested that Halberstam be removed from the Saigon office, a request which the publisher of the Times refused...
...fight wildfires have been sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. About half of Montana's 3,500 Guard troops are in Iraq, and Governor Brian Schweitzer recently asked that they be returned temporarily because his state "is potentially facing a fire season of historic magnitude." The Army denied his request, replying that it would instead train and certify other Guard troops "in minimal time" to prepare for potential emergencies. "The Pentagon just dismissed us," Schweitzer told TIME. "I might have better luck visiting the Blackfoot, Crow and other tribal nations here and asking them to do a rain dance...
...majority after decades of repression under Saddam Hussein. But the revelry turned sour after officials at the college of pharmacy asked al-Rubaiyi and his friends to break up the event, saying it violated a university policy banning sectarian gatherings on campus. The students refused the request, and al-Rubaiyi scuffled with the bodyguard of the dean of the pharmacy college, Mustafa al-Hiti, before heading home. He never made it. A few hours later, he was shot and killed by unknown assailants on a street near his house...