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Watchdog group targets Justice Department hiring

AP — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:22:30 +0000

A government watchdog wants to see whether it can discipline Justice Department officials who improperly rejected liberal Ivy Leaguers and other top law students for plum jobs _ or take action against those who benefited from having GOP roots.The...

Watchdog targets Justice hiring

AP — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:20:17 +0000

Report: Justice Dept. passed over Dems, liberals

AP — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:00:24 +0000

Ivy Leaguers and other top law students were rejected for plum Justice Department jobs two years ago because of their liberal leanings or objections to Bush administration politics, a government report concluded Tuesday.In one case, a Harvard Law...

Audit: Dems, liberals passed over for Justice jobs

AP — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:31:40 +0000

A new audit concludes that rookie attorneys with Republican roots got interviewed for plum Justice Department jobs while their liberal-leaning counterparts got passed over.The Justice Department audit being released Tuesday found that a screening...

Israeli Military: 2006 Deaths Accidental

AP — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:45:08 +0000

No one is to blame for the November 2006 Israeli military shelling of two houses in which 21 sleeping Palestinian civilians were killed, the military said Tuesday.The shelling in Gaza was “not intentional and was directly due to a rare and...

Feds Querying Labels Over 'Total Music'

AP — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:14:05 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department has launched an inquiry into “Total Music,” an approach for selling digital music that has been the subject of early discussions between major record labels and consumer electronics manufacturers, a person...

Size zero models; the debate takes a new turn

Neha — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:09:29 +0000

Baroness Kingsmill, a former deputy chairman of the Competition Commission, who was speaking at the launch of an inquiry into the fashion industry’s relationship with size-zero models said it was high time for the industry to grow up. The...