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Officials: Postal worker fired shots in mail room
Law enforcement officers gather outside the Winton Blount U.S. Post Office in Montgomery, Ala., after a gunman opened fire inside the structure, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. No one was injured and authorities have a suspect in custody. The post office was evacuated and surrounding streets were cordoned off by police during the incident. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Law enforcement officers gather outside the Winton Blount U.S. Post Office in Montgomery, Ala., after a gunman opened fire inside the structure, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. No one was injured and authorities have a suspect in custody. The post office was evacuated and surrounding streets were cordoned off by police during the incident. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ? A worker carried two guns into a mail processing room in a post office in Alabama’s capital city at the beginning of his evening shift and fired several shots, sending co-workers scrambling but leaving no one hurt, officials said Friday.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Clark Morris, said the man showed up for work and began firing shots about 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Montgomery.
No one was injured. Police took the man into custody within 10 minutes of getting a 911 call from the post office. Federal and local officials said it’s unclear what the suspect’s motive may have been and whether he was trying to hit anyone.
Officials said the man is being held in the Montgomery city jail pending charges. He was described as being in his late 20s or early 30s. Officials initially said he had three guns but later said he had two.
“The best news is that nobody was hurt and the local police responded quickly,” Postal Service spokesman Tony Robinson said Friday. “Management quickly had the building evacuated, which helped minimize the potential threat to the people.”
The 911 call came in at 6:38 p.m. and large numbers of officers were able to respond rapidly because they were on holiday patrols at a nearby mall and shopping centers, Montgomery Police Chief Kevin Murphy said.
Robinson said authorities planned to check Friday whether video surveillance captured the gunfire.
The post office, located on Montgomery’s east side near Auburn University Montgomery, reopened Friday morning with counselors available to talk to employees, Robinson said.
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Jeff Martin reported from Atlanta.
Associated Press
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U.S. sticking to missile shield regardless of Moscow (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The Obama Administration plans to complete an anti-ballistic missile shield to protect European allies against Iran “whether Russia likes it or not,” the U.S. envoy to NATO said on Friday.
Moscow’s objections to the project, which includes participation by Romania, Poland, Turkey and Spain, “won’t be the driving force in what we do,” Ivo Daalder, the ambassador, told reporters at a breakfast session.
The U.S. estimate of the Iranian ballistic missile threat has gone up, not down, over the two years since President Barack Obama opted for a new, four-phased deployment to protect the United States and NATO allies, Daalder said.
“It’s accelerating,” Daalder said of the U.S.-perceived threat of Iran’s ballistic missiles, “and becoming more severe than even we thought two years ago.”
“We’re deploying all four phases, in order to deal with that threat, whether Russia likes it or not,” he added. At the same time, he urged Moscow to cooperate in both to deal with Iran and to see for itself that, as he put it, the system’s capabilities pose its strategic deterrent force no threat.
If the perceived threat from Iran ebbs, “then maybe the system will be adapted to that lesser threat,” Daalder said.
Obama pleased the Kremlin in September 2009 by scrapping his predecessor’s plan for longer-range interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar installation in the Czech Republic, a move that helped to improve U.S.-Russian ties.
But Moscow says that the revised version, using land- and sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors, could undermine its security if planned interceptor improvements become capable of neutralizing Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrent force.
Washington and NATO have invited Russia to join in some aspects of the project, including possible joint early warning. Before agreeing to any such cooperation, Moscow is demanding a legally binding pledge from the United States that Moscow’s nuclear forces would not be targeted by the system.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that if the deadlock continues, Moscow would boost its early-warning radar to protect its nuclear missile sites, deploy weapons that could overcome a shield and potentially target missile defense installations to its south and west.
With NATO continuing largely to shrug off Russia’s concerns, Moscow’s ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, was quoted as saying this week that Russia may review its cooperation with the supply route through Russia for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Daalder said the sides remain at odds over, among other things, Russia’s demand for the legally binding pledge, before any cooperation, that its nuclear forces would not be targeted by the NATO elements.
“They have gotten themselves quite hung up on our unwillingness to put this in legally binding writing,” he said.
The administration was not convinced that such a pledge would be ratified by the U.S. Senate, he said, nor should Moscow be convinced that even if it were, “we wouldn’t necessarily at some point walk away from it,” as the George W. Bush administration did from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the only U.S.-Russia missile defense pact.
That withdrawal opened the way for the creation of an anti-missile defense shield that the U.S. government says is designed to protect the United States from countries like Iran and North Korea.
Daalder said that if the United States ever were placing interceptors to counter Russia’s nuclear missiles, “we wouldn’t deploy them in Europe. We would deploy them in the United States.”
The physics of missile defense intercepts make it “easier and better to approach an incoming missile from the opposite side than it is to try to chase it down.” he said. “That’s the way that it works.”
(Editing by Sandra Maler)
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?Deliverance? Actor Bill McKinney Dead At 80 (VIDEO)
“Deliverance” Actor Bill McKinney Dead At 80 (VIDEO)
Bill McKinney, who played the hillbilly rapist in “Deliverance”,? has died, at the age of 80. The actor starred in Deliverance’s “Squeal like a pig” [...]
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Presidential campaigns doing more to track voters across the Web with their political ads (Star Tribune)
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DNC ad targets Romney over flip-flops
FILE – In this Nov. 19, 2011, file photo Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, greets a young supporter during a town hall event in Peterborough, N.H. Romney enjoys solid leads in New Hampshire polls and remains at the front of the pack nationally. A poll released last week showed him with 42 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire. Gingrich followed with 15 percent in the WMUR-University of New Hampshire Granite State poll. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
FILE – In this Nov. 19, 2011, file photo Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, greets a young supporter during a town hall event in Peterborough, N.H. Romney enjoys solid leads in New Hampshire polls and remains at the front of the pack nationally. A poll released last week showed him with 42 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire. Gingrich followed with 15 percent in the WMUR-University of New Hampshire Granite State poll. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Democrats are using humor to try to undermine Republican Mitt Romney, pushing a movie trailer-style ad that portrays his candidacy as a “the story of two men trapped in one body.”
The new ad released Monday is part of an aggressive effort by Democrats to portray Romney as being inconsistent on a number of issues important to conservative voters as he seeks to challenge President Barack Obama next year. Democrats are trying to slow the former Massachusetts governor’s progress with six weeks remaining before Republican primary voters begin picking their nominee.
The Democratic National Committee ad, called “Mitt versus Mitt,” argues that Romney has changed his views on health care and abortion rights, showing contradictory clips of Romney on the issues. “From the creator of ‘I’m running for office for Pete’s sake,’ comes the story of two men trapped in one body,” the ad says.
The DNC is airing the advertisement in Albuquerque, N.M., Raleigh, N.C., Columbus, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Washington. It directs viewers to a website, www.MittvMitt.com, with a longer version.
Romney has blasted Obama’s handling of the economy and his campaign has accused the president of saying anything to hold onto power. Romney has tried to position himself as the Republican best positioned to take on Obama. Last week, his campaign aired an ad in New Hampshire challenging the president on the economy.
Democrats are trying to undercut Romney’s standing in the GOP primary as he tries to fend off a large field of his fellow Republicans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and businessman Herman Cain. Democratic party leaders plan to make Romney’s character and consistency core parts of their campaign against him.
The DNC ran advertising in Arizona last month hitting Romney on comments he made to a Las Vegas newspaper, saying the housing crisis needed to run its course and hit bottom.
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Online:
www.MittvMitt.com
Associated Press
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European shares drop, euro at 7-week low (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) ? European shares fell and the euro hit a seven-week low on Friday, as a spiraling debt crisis and the lack of a comprehensive policy to contain the damage sapped investor confidence.
Bond market borrowing costs grew for the governments struggling most after two years of debt turmoil, with appetite for Italian short term debt set to be tested at an auction later in the day.
Italy will sell up to 8 billion euros of 6-month treasury bills with yields indicated at 5.85 percent in the grey market late on Thursday.
That compared with a gross yield of 3.535 percent at the last sale of 6-month bills a month ago, and highlighted how borrowing costs of so-called peripheral euro zone nations are rising to unsustainable levels.
The interest rate premium investors charge Italy to borrow over 10 years compared to equivalent German bonds rose by 15 basis points. Two-year bond yields hit a euro era high of 7.72 percent.
European stocks lost ground for the ninth time in 10 sessions and were on course to post their biggest weekly loss in two months. The FTSEurofirst 300 (.FTEU3) index of top European shares was down 0.3 percent at 896.88 points.
It has lost about 13 percent since late October as investors fretted over the slow pace of progress of efforts to contain the debt crisis and Germany’s persistent opposition to the idea of joint euro zone bonds and an expanded role for the European Central Bank.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, after talks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Thursday, agreed only to stop bickering in public over whether the ECB should do more to resolve the crisis.
Jonathan Sudaria, a stock dealer at Capital Spreads said as long as Germany was opposed to the idea of euro bonds, shares would continue to fall.
“Yesterday’s meeting sapped traders’ hopes for the creation of a euro bond, as it was made resolutely clear that EU policy makers intend to try and solve the debt crisis through increasing fiscal union,” he said.
He adding such a solution would be a long drawn-out process and was exactly opposite to what markets were looking for to restore confidence.
BANK WORRIES
A growing concern in the past month has been signs of stress on the bank-to-bank lending markets which were at the heart of the financial sector turmoil three years ago.
Funding problems for European banks have escalated, with the cost of swapping euros into dollars in the currency swap market reaching three-year highs of 148 basis points on Thursday.
The ECB is looking at extending the term of loans it offers banks to 2 or even 3 years to try to prevent the euro zone crisis precipitating a credit crunch that chokes the bloc’s economy, people familiar with the matter say.
The euro fell to a seven-week low against the dollar, dropping to $1.3295 and down 0.4 percent on the day.
“Merkel sees no scope for euro bonds and the ECB continues to make it clear it sees no scope for financing public debt,” said Manuel Oliveri, currency strategist at UBS in Zurich.
“Without agreement on either of those two factors there is not much chance of an improvement in sentiment toward the euro and we think it can go lower from here still.”
(Additional reporting by Atul Prakash and Neal Armstrong; Editing by)
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Concurring Opinions ? The Usefulness of Legal Scholarship
posted by Daniel Solove
A reader of my post about the N.Y. Times critique of legal education writes, in regard to the value of legal scholarship:
I happen to be on the editorial board of a T14 law school?s law review, so I have to cite check and read articles regularly. Of those I?ve read, I can?t think of a single one I thought would be useful to a practicing lawyer. The problem is, in my experience, most seem to advocate a fundamental change in philosophy to an area of law that diverges from what precedent would suggest. To me, this seems extremely unhelpful, because A. Lower courts aren?t likely to accept a grand new theory that seems to contradict what SCOTUS is saying, B. As far as I can tell SCOTUS seems not to usually change its theory either, and C. I don?t think most policymakers tend to read law review articles.
This leads me to be inclined to believe that most law review articles are useless. Are you saying my sample is unrepresentative of what?s out there? Or do I simply have a narrower definition of usefulness? Could you perhaps suggest some articles from the past year that in your mind represented useful legal scholarship?
This commentator assumes that usefulness is the equivalent of being accepted by the courts.? I quarrel with this view for many reasons:
1. An article can have an influence on cases, even if difficult to demonstrate.? Many courts don?t cite law review articles even when they rely on them.? Judges are notorious for not being particularly charitable with citations.? They often copy verbatim parts of briefs, for example.? If a law professor relies on a scholarly work even in a minor way, the professor will typically cite to the work.? Not so for courts.
2. Most articles will not change the law.? Changing the law is quite difficult, and if most law review articles changed the law, the law would be ridiculously more dynamic than it currently is.
3. No matter what discipline or area, most of the things produced are not going to be great.? Most inventions are flops.? Most books, songs, movies, TV shows, art works, architecture, or anything produced are quite forgettable and will likely be forgotten.? Great lasting works only come around infrequently, no matter what the field.
4. Most people are forgettable too.? In the law, most practitioners and judges have been forgotten.? Only a few great ones are remembered.? Of the judges who are most well-known, it is interesting that many were more theoretical in nature and had a major impact in changing the law ? typically in ways law professors might change the law.? Think of Benjamin Cardozo, who wrote many articles and books and who radically changed the law.? Think of Felix Frankfurter, a former law professor.? Think of Louis Brandeis.? Think of Oliver Wendell Holmes.? These were jurists who were thinkers.? They were readers.? They were literary.? They were writers of scholarship too.? Maybe the forgettable practitioners and judges are the ones who ignore legal scholarship.
5. The commentator?s remarks that I quoted above seems to be only focused on judicial decisions.? Legal change can occur legislatively as well as through administrative rulemaking.? A lot of legal scholarship that critiques the law can have influence in legislatures or with agencies.
6. The commentator writes: ?I don?t think most policymakers tend to read law review articles.?? I doubt that the Congresspeople themselves read law review articles, but staffers might take a look where relevant.? They won?t likely read them cover to cover, but if there?s an article on point that is helpful, I believe they will read it.
7. In my own experience, I?ve found that some of my more theoretical writing has been read frequently by practitioners.? My book Understanding Privacy, for example, is a theoretical account of what ?privacy? means and why it is valuable.? I base my theory on the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Dewey, and I cite to a lot of social science literature.? More than some of my more so-called ?practical? work, it is this book where I receive the most positive feedback from practitioners.? In particular, a lot of Chief Privacy Officers in business, government, and education find the book useful.
8. Legal change can be slow.? Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis?s The Right to Privacy was a very influential law review article, spawning four privacy torts in a majority of states.? They published their article in 1890.? Ten years later, the article would have been viewed as a failure.? No courts had adopted their theory.? No legislatures had adopted their theory.? Finally, in 1902, the N.Y. Court of Appeals rejected Warren and Brandeis?s theory.? At this point, the legal scholarship naysayers would be saying that Warren and Brandeis?s article would have been a total flop.? A dozen years had passed, and a court declined to change its precedent based on the article.? But then the N.Y. legislature stepped in and recognized a privacy tort based on the article.? And slowly, other courts and legislatures followed.? This process was slow.? It took about 50 years to unfold.
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Higgs boson quest narrows: Does it exist?
GENEVA?? CERN physicists have moved the focus of their search for the Higgs boson, the particle many think gave the universe its form after the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, to a narrow band on the mass spectrum, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Science bloggers close to the research center are suggesting it might be clear by mid-December that the boson is a chimera, and some other mechanism would have to be sought to explain how matter took on mass at the birth of the cosmos.
“The higher mass region has now been virtually ruled out, but the Higgs could still be anywhere in the lower 114-141 GeV range,” James Gillies of CERN, the 21-nation European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, told Reuters.
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Some physicists, such as Italian Tomasso Dorigo, who works with CERN, say that the Higgs should be found at around 120 GeV. Independent British researcher Philip Gibbs, meanwhile, goes for 140 GeV.
GeV, or giga electron-volts, is a term used in physics to quantify particle energy fields. Searches for the Higgs in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and the now-closed Tevatron at Fermilab in Illinois have ranged up to 476 GeV.
Results from analysis up to the end of June in the LHC, which smashes together millions of particles per second at velocities just a tiny fraction less than the speed of light, were presented at a conference in Paris last week.
These reports slipped by almost unnoticed, even by many specialists in the particle physics community. Particle physicists have been focusing their attention on an Italian research center’s claim to have recorded neutrino particles moving faster than light.
The latest Higgs findings were compiled jointly by two usually competing LHC research teams, ATLAS and CMS, and Gillies said both were working hard to try to complete analysis of data from the collider gathered up to the start of November.
Timing points to December
The 21-nation CERN’s ruling Council meets from Dec. 12 to 16, and any concrete sign of the Higgs ? whose existence was postulated four decades ago by British scientist Peter Higgs ? could be reported during that session.
But CERN physicist and blogger Pauline Gagnon said on Wednesday that the low mass range, where scientists had always thought they would find the particle, was also the one where it would be more difficult to see. The Higgs, she said,”is playing hard to catch.”
“It might be that it does not even exist,” she said, a possibility already raised by other researchers and by CERN chief Rolf Heuer.
This echoed comments by Columbia University mathematical physicist Peter Woit last weekend on his Not Even Wrong blog. “It seems not impossible that the results available (publicly or not…) mid-December will come within striking distance of ruling out the Higgs (at 90 pct or 95 pct level) over the relevant low mass range,” Woit wrote.
The particle is part of the decades-old Standard Model of particle physics that seeks to explain how the universe works at its most basic level, but it is almost the only element of the model whose existence has not yet been determined experimentally.
If it is not found, said Gagnon, “we need to move on to explore the next set of possibilities.”
One suggestion came this week from a self-proclaimed non-scientist in a comment on the Quantum Diaries blog. “It will be in essence ethereal, kind of like a spirit being, existing for the purpose of holding everything together,” he wrote.
For more about the search for the Higgs boson, check out msnbc.com’s special report on the “Big Bang Machine.”
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