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	In U.S. Bailout of A.I.G., Forgiveness for Big Banks QUOTE: When the government began rescuing it from collapse in the fall of 2008 with what has become a $182 billion lifeline, A.I.G. was required to forfeit its right to sue several banks — including Goldman, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch — over any irregularities with most of the mortgage securities it insured in the precrisis years.	New York Times
Jul 29, 2010	Judge in Morris Case Revises Charges QUOTE: A State Supreme Court judge in Manhattan dismissed some charges on Thursday in a criminal case against the political consultant Hank Morris, but ruled that many of the most serious ones could remain.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2010	NTSB blames '09 Metro crash on track circuit failures, negligent safety attitude QUOTE: Chronic track circuit failures and a negligent attitude toward safety made a catastrophic accident such as last year's fatal Red Line crash inevitable, the National Transportation Safety Board determined in its final report on the incident Tuesday, warning that the conditions that led to the crash pose a continuing risk.	Washington Post
Jul 28, 2010	Former Nazi Guard, 88, Charged in Mass Murder of Jews QUOTE: German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former Nazi guard with aiding in the murders of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp during World War II, and with shooting 10 people himself during his time there.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2010	Judge Blocks Key Parts of Immigration Law in Arizona QUOTE: A federal judge on Wednesday, weighing in on a clash between the federal government and a state over immigration policy, blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law from going into effect.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2010	Ex-Judge Recommends No Charges Against Paterson QUOTE: The retired judge investigating Gov. David A. Paterson’s intervention in a domestic violence case involving a former top aide will not recommend any charges against the governor, according to a report released on Wednesday.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2010	Congress Reduces Drug Sentence Gap QUOTE: The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would reduce the disparities between mandatory federal sentences for crack and powder cocaine violations, a step toward ending what legal experts say have been unfairly harsh punishments imposed mainly on blacks.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2010	Congress Rethinks Online Gambling Ban QUOTE: With pressure mounting on the federal government to find new revenues, Congress is considering legalizing, and taxing, an activity it banned just four years ago: Internet gambling.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2010	Bell Case Underlines Limits of Wrongful-Death Payouts QUOTE: The $3.25 million settlement that the city announced this week with the estate of Sean Bell, who was shot to death by the police in 2006, serves as a reminder of a ruthless truth about calculating settlements: It is generally cheaper to settle a case in which there was a death than one in which there was a serious injury.	New York Times
Jul 27, 2010	New York to Pay $7 Million in Police Shooting Case QUOTE: Closing a key chapter in one of the most controversial police shootings in recent memory, New York City agreed on Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family and two friends of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old black man who was fatally shot by the police in 2006 on what would have been his wedding day.	New York Times
Jul 27, 2010	China Pushes to End Public Shaming QUOTE: The Chinese government has called for an end to the public shaming of criminal suspects, a time-honored cudgel of Chinese law enforcement but one that has increasingly rattled the public.	New York Times
Jul 27, 2010	More Troops for Somalia, but No Peace to Keep QUOTE: If there is one place on the African continent that could benefit from new thinking, it is Somalia, a country that has been mired in mutating forms of civil war for nearly 20 years.	New York Times
Jul 27, 2010	Dutch Court Clears Way for Young Sailor’s Solo Trip QUOTE: A Dutch court ruled Tuesday the girl who was born on a yacht in the South Pacific is ready to embark on her dream of becoming the youngest person to sail solo around the world -- meaning she could set sail in two weeks in a ketch named Guppy.	New York Times
Jul 27, 2010	Bid to ban bullfighting in Barcelona goes before regional parliament QUOTE: The deep-rooted Spanish tradition of bullfighting is under fire in Barcelona and its region of Catalonia, where the regional parliament will vote on Wednesday whether to ban the fights.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 27, 2010	Appeals Court Rejects Effort to Create Hybrid Taxi Fleet QUOTE: The Bloomberg administration’s years-long attempt to force the city’s cab owners to switch from gas guzzlers to hybrid vehicles was rejected by a federal appeals court Tuesday morning.	New York Times
Jul 27, 2010	Texas Battles Health Law Even as It Follows It QUOTE: There are more uninsured residents of Texas — 6.1 million and counting — than there are people in 33 states. The state’s elected officials might be expected, therefore, to cheer a federal health care law that is likely to deliver billions of dollars from Washington to Austin and cover millions of low-income Texans.Instead, the Republican political leadership has greeted the law and its anticipated costs with open hostility, leaving policy makers to move forward with a complex set of changes even as the governor, attorney general and ranking legislators rage against it.	New York Times
Jul 27, 2010	Most Ironbound Day Laborers Report Being Cheated QUOTE: Nearly all day laborers who gather for work in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark have had employers who have either paid them less than promised or not paid them at all, according to a Seton Hall University report on wage theft and workplace conditions among day laborers.	New York Times
Jul 26, 2010	Iraqi Militants Stealing Blood for the Injured QUOTE: Members of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia have been holding up blood banks and hospitals at gunpoint, stealing blood for their wounded fighters rather than risk having them arrested at medical facilities, according to Iraqi doctors, employees at health centers and the Sunni insurgents themselves.	New York Times
Jul 26, 2010	Pressured, Nike to Help Workers in Honduras QUOTE: Facing pressure from universities and student groups, the apparel maker Nike announced on Monday that it would pay $1.54 million to help 1,800 workers in Honduras who lost their jobs when two subcontractors closed their factories.	New York Times
Jul 26, 2010	Europe to Investigate Antitrust Complaints Over I.B.M. Mainframes QUOTE: The European Commission opened investigations Monday into whether I.B.M. had abused its dominant position in mainframe computers, signaling that the era of aggressive prosecution of American technology leaders in Europe did not end with the Microsoft antitrust case.	New York Times
Jul 26, 2010	Mexican officials: Prison inmates released to commit killings QUOTE: Top officials in Mexico said Sunday that authorities at a prison released and armed several inmates to attack a group of people during a birthday celebration last week in a killing spree that left 17 dead.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 24, 2010	Drivers on Prescription Drugs Are Hard to Convict QUOTE: The issue is vexing police officials because, unlike with alcohol, there is no agreement on what level of drugs in the blood impairs driving. The behavioral effects of prescription medication vary widely, depending not just on the drug but on the person taking it.	New York Times
Jul 23, 2010	Officials Plan to Eliminate 170,000 Canada Geese in New York QUOTE: A nine-page report put together by a variety of national, state and city agencies shows that officials hope to reduce the number of Canada geese in New York to 85,000 from 250,000. That means that roughly 170,000 geese — two-thirds of the population — will be killed.	New York Times
Jul 23, 2010	V.A. Easing Rules for Users of Medical Marijuana QUOTE: The Department of Veterans Affairs will formally allow patients treated at its hospitals and clinics to use medical marijuana in states where it is legal, a policy clarification that veterans have sought for several years.	New York Times
Jul 23, 2010	Oil Rig’s Siren Was Kept Silent, Technician Says QUOTE: The emergency alarm on the Deepwater Horizon was not fully activated the day the oil rig caught fire and exploded, killing 11 people and setting off the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a rig worker on Friday told a government panel investigating the accident.	New York Times
Jul 23, 2010	U.S. Releases Rules on For-Profit Colleges QUOTE: The Obama administration on Thursday released its controversial proposed regulations to end federal student aid to for-profit colleges whose graduates do not earn enough to repay their loans.	New York Times
Jul 23, 2010	E.P.A. Considers Risks of Gas Extraction QUOTE: Pennsylvania is at the center of the battle over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which promises to open up huge swaths of land for natural gas extraction, but whose environmental risks are still uncertain.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	Motorola Sues Huawei For Trade Secret Theft QUOTE: U.S. mobile phone maker Motorola Inc has sued China's Huawei Technologies Co for alleged theft of trade secrets, highlighting the fast-growing Chinese firm's difficulty in shaking the nation's reputation for piracy.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	Letter: No charges in firing of 9 U.S. attorneys during Bush years QUOTE: The Justice Department says it has decided not to charge former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales or other Bush administration officials in the controversial firings of nine U. S. attorneys, according to a letter sent to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 22, 2010	Baseball Minor Leagues Will Test for H.G.H. Immediately QUOTE: Blood testing for human growth hormone will begin immediately in the minor leagues, Bud Selig, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, announced on Thursday. It is the first time a professional sports league in North America will test for the substance.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	Report Criticizes 2008 Chinese Crackdown in Tibet QUOTE: A detailed report by Human Rights Watch says Chinese security forces violated international law in suppressing the Tibetan protests and riots of 2008 by indiscriminately beating, detaining and fatally shooting civilians in towns across the vast Tibetan plateau in western China.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	House Panel Will Try Rangel in Ethics Cases QUOTE: A House investigative panel has found “substantial reason to believe” that Representative Charles B. Rangel violated a range of ethics rules, dealing a serious blow to Mr. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat, in the twilight of his political career.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	No Visa, No School, Many New York Districts Say QUOTE: Three decades after the Supreme Court ruled that immigration violations cannot be used as a basis to deny children equal access to a public school education, one in five school districts in New York State is routinely requiring a child’s immigration papers as a prerequisite to enrollment, or asking parents for information that only lawful immigrants can provide.	New York Times
Jul 21, 2010	Israeli Palestinian man to appeal rape-by-deception conviction QUOTE: Kashour [the Israeli Palestinian who admitted pretending to be a single Jewish man before having sex with an Israeli woman] already has been detained for two months, followed by about two years of house arrest.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 21, 2010	Workers on Doomed Rig Voiced Concern About Safety QUOTE: A confidential survey of workers on the Deepwater Horizon in the weeks before the oil rig exploded showed that many of them were concerned about safety practices and feared reprisals if they reported mistakes or other problems.	New York Times
Jul 21, 2010	Prosecutor’s 2006 Firing Won’t Result in Charges QUOTE: A special prosecutor has decided not to bring any criminal charges in connection with the firing of a United States attorney in 2006 in a political controversy that dogged the George W. Bush administration until its final days, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.	New York Times
Jul 21, 2010	Critics Assail U.S. Plan to Settle With KeySpan QUOTE: A price-fixing scheme by KeySpan Energy Corporation, the wholesale electricity provider, that may have cost New York State customers $300 million could be resolved with a $12 million civil penalty paid to the federal government under a settlement awaiting approval by a federal judge.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	Senate Panel Backs Kagan Nomination, With One Republican Vote QUOTE: Just one Republican, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, broke ranks with his party to back Ms. Kagan. His lengthy speech supporting her led to debate about the Senate’s increasingly partisan approach to judicial confirmations, as he took colleagues — including President Obama when he was a senator — to task for basing their votes on philosophy, rather than qualifications and character.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	Maine Giving Social Security Another Look QUOTE: Now, Maine legislators have prepared a detailed plan for shifting state employees into Social Security and are considering whether to adopt it. They acknowledge it will not solve their problem in the short term but see long-term advantages.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	For Those Deported, Court Rulings Come Too Late QUOTE: “The Supreme Court has said in a series of cases that the government’s theories of deportation have been wrong for years,” said Daniel Kanstroom, a professor at Boston College Law School, citing earlier decisions that rejected the government’s classification of other minor crimes as deportable offenses. “And yet the legal system has not developed a mechanism to right that wrong for the thousands of people who have been wrongly deported.”	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	Witness Cancellations Thwart Hearings on Oil Spill QUOTE: Government investigators looking into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion are colliding with a frequent obstacle: witnesses canceling their scheduled testimonies.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	Bulldozers Meet Historic Chinese Neighborhood QUOTE: More recently, those who reside in the neighborhood known as Gulou are anxiously counting the days until construction crews begin turning its 32 charmingly decrepit acres into a polished tourist attraction called Beijing Time Cultural City.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	Burundi: Journalist Who Criticized Military Is Charged With Treason QUOTE: A journalist has been arrested and charged with treason for publishing an article suggesting that Burundi’s military was not capable of defending the country against terrorist attacks.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	Japan Training Program Is Said to Exploit Workers QUOTE: They [Chinese women] were subjected to 16-hour workdays assembling cellphones at below the minimum wage, with little training of any sort, all under the auspices of a government-approved “foreign trainee” program that critics call industrial Japan’s dirty secret.	New York Times
Jul 19, 2010	Goldman Employee Denies Fraud QUOTE: Days after Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $550 million to settle securities fraud claims, a midlevel employee of the bank filed a 13-page reply denying the charges and sought dismissal of the case.	New York Times
Jul 17, 2010	Insurers Push Plans That Limit Choice of Doctor QUOTE: As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country’s biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals.	New York Times
Jul 16, 2010	Cuts in Home Care Put Elderly and Disabled at Risk QUOTE: As states face severe budget shortfalls, many have cut home-care services for the elderly or the disabled, programs that have been shown to save states money in the long run because they keep people out of nursing homes.	New York Times
Jul 15, 2010	Arizona Halts Photo Enforcement of Speed Laws QUOTE: The state, the first to adopt such cameras [automated cameras on Arizona freeways aimed at catching speeders] on its highways in October 2008, has become the first to pull the plug, bowing to the wishes of a vocal band of conservative activists who complained that photo enforcement intruded on privacy and was mainly designed to raise money.	New York Times
Jul 15, 2010	How Far Should the DNA Dragnet Go? QUOTE: Familial searches, and the traditional investigation those searches yield, must be conducted in a legal and constitutional manner. The goal is always to provide investigators with a scientifically based lead while addressing privacy concerns.	New York Times
Jul 15, 2010	Argentina Approves Gay Marriage, in a First for Region QUOTE: Argentina’s Senate narrowly approved a law early on Thursday authorizing same-sex marriages, making Argentina the first country in Latin America to allow gay couples to wed.	New York Times

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