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They&#39;ve played this same game so many times that this one almost seemed routine. Even though it was played on a bigger stage, even though it moved the Astros within reach of something unspeakably special, it had a familiar feeling from beginning to end.
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Heating up: What's wrong with the way Shelby County's Juvenile Court works? The debate over adding a second judge to the court has brought long-simmering issues to a boil. V1  Behind bars: Presidential hopeful Sen.
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: British life is still riven by class - and the gulf is growing wider. But politicians seem bent on denying it.
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By Kenneth C. Crowe II, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Jun. 8--Editor's note: This story first appeared on timesunion.com Wednesday night.
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Bench the lawyers and bean-counters and bring in the engineers, says the UCS clean-vehicles research director on how Detroit could revamp the car industry. Plus: Renault's French Connection in Iran. In Autopia.
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I would have enjoyed being a fly on the wall at the meeting where it was decided Joe Cannon should be the new editor for the Deseret Morning News. I wish him the best and hope he has more success managing newspaper content than he had at Geneva Steel.
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By Leigh Hornbeck and Kenneth C. Crowe II, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 6--QUEENSBURY -- In law, there is only fact, not what could have been or should have been.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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Ukraine's controversial presidential election dominates today's papers. An EU commissioner's "past entanglements with the judiciary" also comes in for attention
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Innocent criminals Also in this week's column:â¦
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Republicans expand their margin of control, even as bitter fights over judiciary and spending remain. By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By Georgia Evdoxiadis Daily Herald Staff Writer
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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By Larry Rulison, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec.
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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.
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U.S. News & World Report - Just days before last month's elections, a conservative weekly's website suggested that a member of the U.S. Supreme Court was gravely ill and that friends had been asked to pray for 86-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens.