from SLATE's news summary: >The NY [TIMES] goes above the fold with news that the U.S. Embassy may have >pressured the International Republican Institute—an international watchdog >organization—to withhold sensitive exit polls after last year's disputed >Kenyan election. There isn't conclusive proof, but NYT interviews and a look >at the IRI's internal e-mails made it sound like the group was successfully >pressured to help Mwai Kibaki—a U.S. ally—defeat challenger Raila Odinga, who >named his son after Fidel Castro.
>The NYT fronts a look at what one interviewee calls "the end of the Fourth >Amendment as we know it." As a lawyer in the Reagan administration, John >Roberts launched a campaign against the exclusionary rule—a Supreme Court >ruling that automatically removes improperly gathered evidence from >consideration in a courtroom. Now, Chief Justice Roberts is edging toward a >5-4 majority for overturning it.< -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
