A week after former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn posted a $1 million cash bail and a $5 million bond, he was moved from temporary lodgings on lower Broadway to a large townhouse in Tribeca. Unlike a large apartment building, a townhouse has no doorman, but for DSK, there is no need.
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The Turning Point
France is having its Anita Hill moment.
Why Doctors’ Drug-Prescribing Info Should Be Kept Private
An e-mail has been making the rounds among some of my physician colleagues.
A Brief History of: Gay Marriage
When Marcia Hams and Susan Shepherd cut into their wedding cake at city hall in Cambridge, Mass., on May 17, 2004, after becoming the first same-sex couple in the U.S.
Are Stepparents Real Parents?
This week the Supreme Court let stand a ruling that ultimately could affect as many as one-third of all Americans — anyone in a stepfamily. But you’ll probably never realize it from any news reports on the ruling
Sotomayor Hearing: Why Shouldn’t Judges Make Policy?
Supreme Court confirmation hearings are often dismissed as a kind of ritualized theater that reveals little about the judicial philosophy of nominees. But this stereotype is frequently wrong.
Fighting for Free Speech in Schools
The first morning of the 2005 school year held more than the typical jitters for Toni Kay Scott. One moment, the seventh-grader, known as T.K., was stepping from her mom’s Ford pickup to join friends in front of Redwood Middle School in Napa, Calif
Holding Firm on Abortion
The Supreme Court solidly supports a woman's right to choose These cases come to us a decade after we held in Roe vs. Wade that the right of privacy, grounded in the concept of personal liberty guaranteed by the Constitution, encompasses a woman's right to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.
The Battle of Madison Spreads to the Courts
The hand-to-hand combat over new rules limiting the power of public unions in Wisconsin didn’t end when Governor Scott Walker signed them into law on March 11; it merely changed venues. The new law is headed for a challenge at the state’s supreme court later this year
What Is Justice For A Sixth-Grade Killer?
I hope your boy gets raped in jail and killed.” The words, angry and exasperated, from an anonymous caller, burn into the ears of Jackie Golden, grandmother of Andrew Golden. For a moment she is too shaken to speak.