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  • Senate approves Kennedy successor bill

    09/22/2009 12:13:25 PM PDT · by bridgemanusa · 66 replies · 2,439+ views
    The Boston Herald ^ | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 | By Hillary Chabot
    State senators passed a bill today 24-16 allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to pick a temporary U.S. senator by the end of the week following a final procedural vote tomorrow. If the House and Senate pass the bill, as expected, tomorrow a temporary senator can be chosen to fill the seat left vacant by the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. A permanent replacement will be elected by voters during a Jan. 19 special election.
  • ABC Said to Re-Edit Key Parts of 9/11 Show (Dems and Clinton censor ABC.)

    09/08/2006 7:54:30 AM PDT · by CometBaby · 91 replies · 1,993+ views
    New York Times ^ | 8/9/06 | PATRICK HEALY and JESSE McKINLEY
    Under growing pressure from Democrats and aides to former President Bill Clinton, ABC is re-evaluating and in some cases re-editing crucial scenes in its new mini-series “The Path to 9/11” to soften its portrait of the Clinton administration’s pursuit of Osama bin Laden, according to people involved in the project. Among the changes, ABC is altering one scene in which an actor playing Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser, abruptly hangs up on a C.I.A. officer during a critical moment in a military operation, according to Thomas H. Kean, a consultant on the ABC project and co-chairman of...