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Harvard Law School
 South Africa lawyer nominated as UN rights chiefOne of South Africa's leading female jurists who won acclaim defending apartheid opponents was nominated Thursday to serve as the next United Nations high commissioner for human rights.
Gov. Patrick says he's not pondering Supreme Court
Gov. Deval Patrick is chuckling at reports he could be nominated to the Supreme Court if Barack Obama was elected president in upcoming elections.  Web networking photos come back to bite defendantsTwo weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
Web networking photos come back to bite defendants
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
Obama to spend part of birthday in Boston
Barack Obama is planning to spend part of his 47th birthday in Massachusetts.
Yahoo's current board versus Icahn's challengers
Carl Icahn moved ahead with his attempt to overthrow Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors by submitting his final list of candidates Monday. The nominees remain the same as those he first provided in May, except the list has been whittled from 10 to nine candidates to reflect Yahoo's decision to reduce the size of its board. Here's a look at the incumbents and the Icahn-led opposition:
Michelle Obama makes 1st Michigan campaign stop
Gov. Jennifer Granholm said one of the few differences between herself and first lady-hopeful Michelle Obama is fashion sense.
Jules Witcover: Vice President Jim Webb?
T he political adage, “Would that my opponent would write a book,” is a commentary on the risk that any public figure takes in putting his or her life story, or any part of it, in print. Though most such efforts are patently self-serving, they often can be revealing in detrimental ways.
Gripe about your neighbor on RottenNeighbor.com
Just outside his sealed bedroom window, beyond the chain-link fence that surrounds his next-door neighbor's yard, sit the reasons David Adams says he can't sleep: two bushy-tailed dogs that bark and howl all night. |
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