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Robert Boehm, the chairman of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a Manhattan-based nonprofit group most recently in the forefront of an effort to secure legal rights for military prisoners held by the United States at Guantánamo and elsewhere, died on Tuesday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 92. The death was announced by his family and by the center, of which he was a mainstay since its founding in 1966. The Center for Constitutional Rights, prompted by the civil-rights struggle, gained support after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in...

A shareholder group is gaining momentum in its efforts to pressure companies to disclose charitable giving -- with donations linked to the Rev. Jesse Jackson... The National Legal and Policy Center has stepped up efforts to require corporations to disclose more details about their donations... The Rainbow/PUSH Citizen Education Fund, which in 2001 provided payments to Jackson's former mistress. The Church Falls, Va.-based non-profit group hit two shareholders meetings this week -- Boeing on Monday and PepsiCo Inc. on Wednesday. "Many shareholders would certainly object to their money going to a controversial and divisive figure like Jesse Jackson," said Peter...

Guess what, Freepers - Mark Levin, "the Great One," star of stage, screen and incisive logic will guest host tonight on WMAL radio, 630-AM, in Washington, DC, 9 p.m. to midnight! Mark will be joined by Byron York, from National Review Online, who will discuss his groundbreaking reporting on Democratic attempts to smear President Bush on the Harkin oil matter. Ken Boehm, of the National Legal and Policy, will also talk about the Senate's disgraceful performance yesterday in failing to include union corruption in its corporate governance legislation. You, too, can join in the magic tonight even if you don't...