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...difficult thing to prove, absent a videotape of a crook stuffing the pockets of a politician with cash. But so large are the amounts involved?and so voluminous the evidence from a man who committed nearly every thought to e-mail?that prosecutors in the Abramoff case may even test the proposition that legally reported campaign contributions constitute bribery, if it can be proved they were given expressly in return for official actions. A high-level source tells TIME that prosecutors will also focus much of their energies on the lesser and easier-to-prove charge of "honest services mail...
Richard Corliss's review of the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [Dec. 19] stated that director Andrew Adamson should "stick to animation." Here is a test. Does Narnia make the spirit soar? Does Narnia cause the imagination to fly? Does Narnia make you think, make you wonder, make you aspire? If it does even half these things, not only will encouragement rule the land but also, on the commercial side, the season will ring with the sound of ka-ching! STEVE HORTEGAS Lynden, Wash...
Rapton does know that when he took a tour of the Hebei Zhongxing Automobile factory south of Beijing last November, he watched workers weld vehicle components together by hand?an assembly scene out of the '50s. But after his son test-drove a few models, Rapton started to think he could sell China's cars in the U.S. Setting aside doubts about Hebei's quality control, he signed a "memo of understanding" to negotiate an import deal. "It might take them a year or two to get started," he says, "but I'm willing to take my chances...
Activists in the party's right wing, long suspicious that Schwarzenegger was a liberal in conservative's clothes, are not waiting for the loyalty-test results. The Campaign for Children and Families is asking him to leave the Republican Party. A leading grass-roots group, the California Republican Assembly, is lobbying to rescind the G.O.P.'s preprimary endorsement of Schwarzenegger. Those activists have collected more than 10,000 signatures on an online petition urging The Passion of the Christ director Mel Gibson, a conservative Catholic, to run against Schwarzenegger for Governor. "His reaction to the special election was to raise...
Alito was given a test. As part of applying for the job, he was asked to write an essay attesting to his ideological credentials. "I am and always have been a conservative," he wrote in uncharacteristically bald prose. With those eight words, along with a note that he was "particularly proud" of memos he had written suggesting limits to affirmative action and abortion rights, Alito sealed the promotion...