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Selections from the New York Times April 2, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NYTimes.com April 2, 2009.

People in Need Are Filling and Taxing Libraries
By SUSAN SAULNY and KAREN ANN CULLOTTA
Anxious, depressed patrons who say they have nowhere else to go are turning some libraries into stressful hotbeds.

Toll Discounts for In-State Residents Draw Constitutional Challenge
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Suits charge that using E-ZPass transponders to give state residents discounts on road tolls is discriminatory and hinders interstate commerce.

Jury Gets Case of Fired Professor
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
A jury is deliberating the case of Ward L. Churchill, a former professor who says he was fired because he called victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks ?little Eichmanns.?

Justice Dept. Moves to Void Stevens Case
By NEIL A. LEWIS
The Justice Department moved to drop charges against Ted Stevens, citing prosecutorial misconduct.

Education Secretary Says Aid Hinges on New Data
By SAM DILLON
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told governors that in exchange for stimulus money, he wanted new school-performance data, much of which could be embarrassing.

Health Critic Brings a Past and a Wallet
By JIM RUTENBERG
Richard L. Scott has emerged as the most visible conservative opponent to the president?s health care effort. Less visible is his role in massive health care fraud.

Funds Tied to Madoff in Legal Vise
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
Massachusetts? top securities regulator has sued Fairfield Greenwich Advisors, which directed billions of dollars of its clients? money into Bernard L. Madoff?s investment firm.

CBS Turns Out ?Guiding Light?
By BILL CARTER
The 72-year-old soap opera ?Guiding Light,? the longest-running scripted program in broadcasting history, will end in September.

In Workplace Injury System, Ill Will on All Sides
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Nearly a century after the workers? compensation system was introduced, employers and employees remain at odds, each suspecting the other of dishonesty.

Gang Shooting Claims a Life, 49 Years Later
By AL BAKER
The fights between gangs of the 1950s and ?60s might seem quaint compared with contemporary drive-by violence, but as the case of William M. Jenkins shows, bullets flew easily even then.

EDITORIAL OBSERVER
With the Downturn, It?s Time to Rethink the Legal Profession
By ADAM COHEN
The silver lining of the economic crisis, if there is one, is that the legal world may be inspired to draw blueprints for the 21st century.

 

 

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