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Retired Connecticut U.S. senator Joseph I. Lieberman joined Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP as senior counsel in New York.
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said the state is reviewing its options after a judge threw out a lawsuit challenging National Collegiate Athletic Association sanctions against Pennsylvania State University for its role in the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal.
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Legislation introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives would repeal requirements for ethanol use, possibly rekindling the debate over the biofuel’s place in the nation’s energy plans.
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Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen asked the state Supreme Court to reinstate a voter identification law before the Nov. 6 elections.
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R. A. Dickey pitched a one-hitter in a 9-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays and set a New York Mets record by not allowing a run for 32 2/3 innings.
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Wiser Democratic heads prevailed last week as actress Ashley Judd was nudged out of the race to unseat Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s senior Republican senator. Did the eyes in those heads ever see Judd in “Double Jeopardy,” one of the great damsel-in-distress movies of all time?
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Republican U.S. Representative Roscoe Bartlett boasts that he voted against all of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plans and was an early member of the House Tea Party Caucus. That’s not good enough for other anti-spending Republicans back home.
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The Illinois Legislature adjourned today without acting on a proposal from Democratic Governor Pat Quinn that would create an eight-member panel to enact changes in the state’s pensions.
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Ivan Seidenberg, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon Communications Inc., said the directory unit Verizon spun off that later filed for bankruptcy was healthy and “completely stable.”
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American International Group Inc.’s derivatives trading unit in London was a money spinner, which is one reason the bosses in New York were willing to look the other way until it racked up losses. The athletics program at Penn State University, dominated by its now-scandal-tainted football program, isn’t a profit machine unto itself.
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