The Press-Enterprise, June 11, by Douglas Quan
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_N_keynote12.42e4a55.html
A former senior White House and U.S. Department of Labor official who was scheduled to deliver the keynote address at one of UC Riverside’s commencement ceremonies this weekend has pulled out over an ongoing labor dispute. Maria Echaveste … was supposed to address graduates from the psychology, sociology, religious studies and women’s studies departments.
US News and World Report, June 11, by Emma Schwartz
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/06/11/crime-rates-shown-to-be-falling_print.htm
Unlike in the late 1980s and ’90s, when the crack epidemic sent crime rates up across the board, there “isn’t a consistent set of national trends” these days, says Frank Zimring.
The New York Times, June 11, by Adam Liptak and Adam B. Ellick
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/us/11death.html?_r=3&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt&oref=slogin&scp=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Elisabeth A. Semel … welcomed Judge Burge’s ruling. “It is likely to reduce the risk of executions that cause suffocation and excruciating pain,” Professor Semel said.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, by Demian Bulwa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/10/MNHS115PSG.DTL&type=printable
“What you have now is real divergence.… Some cities are doing very well, others are doing very badly. That’s what you’d expect, but it’s not what we lived with for 15 or 20 years.”
San Jose Mercury News, June 9, by Lisa M. Krieger
http://www.mercurynews.com [Registration required]
“For many years now, Berkeley and Stanford students seeking high-paid jobs with big law firms seem to have little difficulty getting offers.… At schools like ours, only a small share of positions seem to require being more or less in the top 10 percent of the class.”
Boston Globe, June 8, by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/08/i_now_pronounce_you____friend_and_friend/?page=4
Changes of this kind would “allow you to say, these are people who matter deeply to me,” said Rachel Moran.… “I want that to count, not only in my own intimate life, but in the eyes of the law.”
San Francisco Daily Journal, June 6, by Laura Ernde
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“Business as usual, in terms of water diversion, is basically at an end.… It’s an important policy decision. It speaks some broader truths and I think some of the language that is in there is going to influence policy-making by the other two branches of government.”
Contra Costa Times, June 6, by Matt Krupnick
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_9504652?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com
Sallie Mae sent borrowers’ passwords by e-mail, a practice few lenders use, said Jennifer Lynch, an attorney who oversaw the student-led project…. “Sallie Mae’s practices just seemed antiquated, to say the least, and very risky,” she said. “They should have known this was a risky practice.”
“They sent this information to their customers … and people have been discussing it on blogs,” [student Kathleen] Lu said.
San Francisco Daily Journal, June 5, by Peter Matuszak
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“I think the opponents of Prop. 99 are correct and probably it will not have that much on-the-ground impact.… In recent years since Kelo, we have rarely seen it used in California to condemn owner-occupied, single-family homes. That behavior and government conduct hadn’t occurred more in California, according to most studies.”
Sacramento Bee, June 5, by Ryan Lillis, Bill Lindelof and Bobby Caina Calvan
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/990310.html
If the initiative passes, a legal challenge of the ruling is almost assured, said Jesse Choper, a law professor at UC Berkeley.