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A Cal law school dean's nomination to a federal appeals court appears to be dead, at least for now, under a deal struck between U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans to break a year-end judicial confirmation logjam. Officials familiar with the deal said Democrats agreed not to seek votes on the nominations of Goodwin Liu, associate dean at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, and three others, while Republicans agreed to confirm at least 19 of President Barack Obama's noncontroversial nominees. If confirmed, Liu, 40, of Berkeley, would be only the second Asian-American serving on a federal appeals court and...

Comcast shows that the program on at 12 MST on Fox News is titled "Presidential Character - Obama" Hope they mention everyone... Ayers, Odinga

Bettendorf native Adam Feeney received an e-mail message Saturday morning at his home in Dalian, China, that left the 25-year-old “overjoyed,” his father, Mark, said. The joy, however, was short-lived.The message Adam Feeney received was sent Friday, California time, to thousands of fall applicants to the University of California-Berkeley law school, congratulating them “once more” on their early acceptance. It also invited them to an alumni-sponsored event at the prestigious school in northern California. “He called Friday night, sort of floating on air that he had been accepted to Berkeley,” said Mark Feeney, a copy editor at the Quad-City Times....