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  Lateline - 26/11/2002: Dowd and Brandis on anti-terror legislation. Australian Broadcasting Corp
JUSTICE JOHN DOWD: SUPREME COURT JUDGE: It gives for the first time in our lifetime a right for people to be held in detention without their having committed an offence.
JUSTICE JOHN DOWD: This is a submission by the international commission of jurists and I speak only in that capacity of the group that put this together.
John Dowd has pointed out in his submission, or the submission points out, you don't obviously adopt all aspects of the submission -- that the new laws would mean arresting and holding the whole family of a suspected terrorist.
www.abc.net.au /lateline/stories/s735539.htm   (2839 words)

  
 THE PAMPERED POLITICIAN - John McCain [Free Republic]
John McCain -- despite his status as a war hero -- is a meanspirited, hot-tempered, opportunistic, philandering, hypocritical political climber who married a comely beer heiress and used her daddy's money to get elected to Congress in a state he can hardly call home.
John McCain's nominating speech for candidate Bob Dole was the best of the 1996 Republican convention, according to the pundits.
Boil it down, and there are five reasons the members of the national press, by their own admission, love John McCain: He's a war hero; he's a neopopulist; he reminds them of themselves; he's accessible; and, finally, they say, his image is genuine, not manufactured.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38266786551d.htm   (6044 words)

  
 catallaxy » Blog Archive » Dowd’s departure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
That is the curious reason given by former politician and retiring NSW Supreme Court judge, Justice John Dowd.
My view is that judges should be more circumspect about political issues than some of them are, since their comments can raise suspicion that they would not impartially and according to law decide cases based on legislation they have criticised in the past.
Justice Dowd postponed his decision until he was entitled to a generous pension.
badanalysis.com /catallaxy/index.php?p=179   (753 words)

  
 Averett University Library: McNaughton Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Boddie, John Bennett, 1880 Seventeenth century Isle of Wight County, Virginia : a history of the county of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the seventeenth century, including abstracts of the county records / by John Bennett Boddie.
Dowd, Gregory Evans, 1956 A spirited resistance : the North American Indian struggle for unity, 1745-1815 / Gregory Evans Dowd.
Moore, John Wheeler, 1833-1906, comp Roster of North Carolina troops in the war between the states.
www.averett.edu /library/newamhistory.html   (4228 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Spin Corner
NEW YORK -- Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said there are few undecided voters left at this stage of the campaign, and that he thinks they will likely buck tradition and vote for the incumbent in November.
Dowd gave a guardedly optimistic analysis of the president's prospects during a 30-minute discussion Wednesday afternoon with Washington Post reporters and editors in the newspaper's work space at the Republican convention.
John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) has failed to meet the third challenge, and that will be decisive, Graham said.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/politics/elections/2004/rnc/newsmakers   (3888 words)

  
 Lawyers track proof of Timor atrocities
AUSTRALIAN lawyers have gone to East Timor to gather evidence of war crimes in an effort to make the Indonesian military answer to a UN tribunal for its alleged atrocities.
The team of four lawyers from the Australian chapter of the International Commission of Jurists is being led by Justice John Dowd of the NSW Supreme Court, a former Liberal politician who has been agitating for an investigation into the military and anti-independence militia.
The determination of the lawyers to press their investigations has put the federal Government, already struggling to repair relations with Jakarta, in an awkward situation.
www.etan.org /et2000a/january/1-7/6lawyrs.htm   (363 words)

  
 Classic Crimes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Little did John W. Springer, wealthy businessman and politician, know Isabel, 20 years his junior, had been feeding the romantic fire of a suitor while she was developing a relationship with a man he regarded a friend and business partner.
John Tornow, a former mental patient became a legend among loggers and a nightmare for children.
In 1907 a former judge shot to death the son of the sheriff for an alleged rape, and in 1935 an Appalachian schoolteacher stood accused of killing her father by beating him with a shoe.
www.karisable.com /crclassus.htm   (5981 words)

  
 PROPAGANDA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
An advertiser or a politician or talk show host given to [bull] "does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it," he writes.
While the leaders of the conservative movement like to boast that the power of their movement lies in the power of its ideas, the ideas of today's conservative movement are the same old failed policies from years gone by, spit-shined and with user-friendly names.
A politician has to be an accomplished teller of tall tales and absurd fibulations to bring off such a demarché.
www.crisispapers.org /topics/propaganda.htm   (10023 words)

  
 Lateline - 26/11/2002: Proposal to boost ASIO powers has judges worried. Australian Broadcasting Corp
Justice John Dowd today gave evidence to a senate committee looking into the Government's proposed new ASIO laws.
NSW Supreme Court Justice John Dowd today told a Senate committee that judges are concerned ASIO will unfairly target Muslims.
The former Liberal Attorney-General even quoted the PM's political hero, telling the committee: The greatest tragedy that could overcome a country would be for it to fight a successful war in defence of liberty -- and lose its own liberty in the process.
www.abc.net.au /lateline/stories/s735537.htm   (620 words)

  
 Chrenkoff
John Paul II prepared a five-year plan, on the eve of the third millennium, Christianize the world.
John Hawkins interviews an ex-Marine and a syndicated columnist Jack Kelly : "Iraq has proven to be a quagmire, as the people on the left have asserted, but it'’s a quagmire for Al Qaeda, not for the United States."
A leading politician who ran against Hamed Karzai in last year's presidential election has announced the creation of a new coalition that hopes to win a majority of seats in the national legislature this autumn, and create a parliamentary form of government.
chrenkoff.blogspot.com /2005_06_05_chrenkoff_archive.html   (14612 words)

  
 Only Baseball Matters
John, giving up your best player for a slightly-better-than-league average (0.5 SNWAR, placing him 5th amongst the other starters on the Giants) and a late-inning defensive replacement is a move that Pittsburgh's old GM Cam Bonifay wouldn't even consider.
John suggests that it is incumbent on a GM to take these kinds of risks, risks like Matt Williams at 9.5 million per, or Jay Bell at 8 milion per.
John wrote, "These guys aren't necessarily untradeable because of bad management as much as they are because they turned out to be bad bets." I don't see it that way.
www.onlybaseballmatters.com /a/2002_07.html   (14231 words)

  
 Pundit Pap for Sunday, March 16th 1998
John: The peacekeeping the U.N. does, that I saw in Cyprus, is remarkable.
John then went into detail of Maureen Dowd's Saturday op-ed piece in the New York Times concerning Jack Stanton as Satan, titled Sympathy for the Devil.
I'm not a politician; I'm not a political analyst.
www.americanpolitics.com /031698PunditPap.html   (5840 words)

  
 For sale: Tape of lawmaker asleep on job at Statehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The tape aside, Republicans are now internally debating whether the very issue of Clark's sleep apnea, a condition that causes her to fall asleep during legislative proceedings, is fair game during this congressional campaign of extreme national interest.
With John E. Sununu vacating the seat to run for Senate, top Democrats, including House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., and U.S. Sen. John Kerry, have stumped for Clark.
Dowd last night released a memo of his own, blasting Sullivan.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20020213/NH_004.htm   (1073 words)

  
 The Dooryard
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, whom the Human "Rights" Campain has villified, helped win a big gay-rights victory from the Supreme Court in 1996, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.
It is so sad to see all of the people instantly attacking President Bush's nomination to the Supreme Court, John Roberts.
While it seems almost every politician of today focuses on the errors of the past, Reagan always spoke of a shining city on a hill.
thedooryard.typepad.com   (3857 words)

  
 Reptile News From Australia - The Update For 1997.
Officials, Clive Bennett, John Gallard and others, who'd been with the department for many, many years, provided thousands of pages of critical NPWS documents, tapes and other material that the corrupt NPWS officers thought they'd had destroyed in the late 1980's when Freedom of Information (FOI) laws came out.
In every case I have used truth and public interest in the truth as primary defenses (as stated by Justice John Dowd in his judgement on 24th December 1996) and I have won them all unequivocally (100% my way).
West Australian opposition MP John Haldon, stated in Parliament recently that the Fisheries department in that state 'had been out of control for years'.
www.smuggled.com /HerNew9.htm   (7815 words)

  
 Oval Office 2008: January 2005
For the Republicans, the first two names that popped into the head of Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd were John McCain and Rudy Giuliani, although "a whole bunch of other candidates" also have a chance.
John Leo's column in the New York Daily News doesn't say much that is new about Senator Hillary Clinton's supposed 'political makeover', but what he does say, he says with a great deal of conviction.
She praises Mr Gingrich for his success as a politician who achieved things (which I think is largely fair) and his skill as a writer and political analyst (which, though I have not read his books, I understand is also true).
www.ovaloffice2008.com /2005_01_01_ovaloffice2008_archive.html   (10824 words)

  
 MyDD :: The Daily Pulse: Hitler's Conscience, DeLay's Prison Cell, and a Good Republican
If it were the case - that homosexuality spreads by contact - we should get serious about rounding up these contagions in modern-day leper colonies.
As it is, however, a politician can coast a long way today on that other, more current, more convenient hot-button issue based on human prejudice.
Dowd continues, "John Danforth, the former Republican senator and U.N. ambassador has said, 'On issues from stem cell research to Terri Schiavo, our party has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.'"
www.mydd.com /story/2005/4/22/82641/6394   (4794 words)

  
 jim dowd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Jim Dowd James Patrick Dowd (born 5 March 1951) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
Glasgow Anniesland) John Denham (Southampton Itchen) Andrew Dismore (Hendon) Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton) Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras...
McLaughlin Francis Molloy Conor Murphy Mary Nelis John O' Dowd Patricia O'Rawe Tom O'Reilly Caitriona Ruane...
www.wikisearch.net /jim+dowd   (624 words)

  
 Ed Driscoll.com: June 2003 Archives
I have a feeling though, that Dowd may have left a few things out, so...read the whole thing for yourself.
Sullivan wrote just last night, "The one thing that knowledgeable people have told me about John Kerry is that he doesn't know when to stop.
JOHN PODHORETZ WRITES that the real problem with The Times isn't the Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg scandals.
www.eddriscoll.com /archives/2003_06.php   (12053 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com | Music | FIFE, POMPED UP | 1995-01-12
A couple thousand folks are standing around, the high-ranking Fifekateers planted in strategically assigned seats (John Dowd, the governor's fierce legal muscle, is stationed symbolically behind his client, near his wallet).
A Huey Long mated with the Michelin Man, this flesh-pressing monster of a politician is making his way through the crowd bellowing greetings that are more demands than questions.
Actually, he is confronting an awesome truth: A politician can be utterly cool giving speeches before thousands, totally confident during press conferences, and never break a sweat in steamy court appearances, but trying to look laid-back and with-it singing rock 'n' roll is virtually impossible.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1995-01-12/music/suntracks.html   (1577 words)

  
 THE WAR IN CONTEXT:: Iraq, the War on Terrorism, and the Middle East Conflict - in Critical Perspective
The mood is tense among the 71 members of the constitutional assembly attempting to draft a new constitution for Iraq before an August 15 deadline.
A series of stumbling blocks has delayed the work of the assembled politicians, prime among the obstacles being religion and federalism.
And he identifies himself as a new generation of politician, with a mission that has set him apart.
warincontext.org   (4649 words)

  
 Links | What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Politician accountability is the theme here, where Republicans and Democrats alike might be skewered.
As far as I can tell, it isn't fl and white, and by simplifying it thusly, we are only putting ourselves in danger.
The bright guys at spinsanity.com profess to be Democratic in party line, but these watchdogs unravel the truths and untruths from both parties and both sides of the spectrum (President Bush to Maureen Dowd).
www.armchairdiplomat.com /links.htm   (1547 words)

  
 Lucas says he will follow 'the N.H. way'
Surrounded by his three well-dressed children and his wife, Sherry, the New London business consultant announced his gubernatorial aspirations yesterday outside Town Hall, claiming his opponents, Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and state Sen. Jim Rubens, "are going to make us just like our neighboring states."
State Senate hopeful John Dowd said Lucas will face tough races in both the primary and the general election.
"It's tough to come into politics without a lot of experience as a politician," Dowd said.
www.seacoastonline.com /1998news/6_9_s1.htm   (440 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com | News | The Fife and George Show | 1997-05-22
But when you look at him sitting there with his attorney John Dowd, you'd think Dowd was the accused criminal and Symington the hotshot lawyer from a John Grisham novel.
She goes on to deliver a little eulogy to her hero's honesty and integrity as a politician.
Then the judge asks Dowd if he wants to ask her any questions.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1997-05-22/news/columns.html   (1373 words)

  
 TIME.com: Clipped by Her Own Press Clips? -- Page 1
And it is against nature for a columnist to become a politician or, more dangerously, a Cabinet officer.
She has shot off her mouth in the way that a mindful, foresighted and rump-covering politician would not.
There's something almost unsanitary in trying to turn a columnist into a public official or politician.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,94137,00.html   (654 words)

  
 Skinny (January 18 - January 24, 1996)
He's led the charge to subsidize more lawyers than any other local politician in history, including some of the lawyer-politicians.
From the attorneys hired to handle the "trial" of former County Assessor Alan Lang to the $300,000 spent to defend the actions of Moore and his pathetic GOP toadies when they took over and fired a whole bunch of top-level staff in early 1993, Ed ought to be voted Bar Association Wacko of the Decade.
Roger is a Washington, D.C., lawyer who works for the firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld --the same law firm that employs attorney John Dowd, who is defending none other than Gov. J.
www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/01-18-96/skinny.htm   (1588 words)

  
 To honor those who served . . .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In Andover, the ongoing struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan made for more somber observances than in recent years, said Andover Veterans Services Director John C. Doherty.
The Merrimack Valley has lost some residents in the Middle East, including Haverhill's Pfc.
In Methuen, after a parade down Broadway, American Legion Commander John A. Dowd led a remembrance ceremony at Walnut Grove Cemetery.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20031112/LN_001.htm   (578 words)

  
 Siemens: Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes, from The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Launched by the Canadian Authors Association and administered by the CAA until 1971, the awards were at first non-monetary prizes; the prestige of the prizes was complemented by a small cash award of $250 in 1951, to be increased in 1966 to $2,500, in 1975 to $5,000, and in 1989 to $10,000.
The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer ($2,500): Established at the bequest of John hirsch, founder of the Manitoba Theatre Company, to be presented annually to the most promising Manitoba writer.
Short Fiction: Lois simmie, A Shortage of Mourners ; Poetry: John V. hicks, The Atmosphere on the Peak is Rarefied.
www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/english/awards.htm   (7881 words)

  
 The National Archives | National Register of Archives | Browse the combined corporate and business indexes
O'Donnell, John (b 1870) Irish Journalist and Politician (1)
O'Donnell, Thomas (1872-1943) Irish Judge and Politician (2)
O'Dowd, John (b 1856) Irish Author and Politician (1)
www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/browser/person/page/person_OD.htm   (216 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
COLUMNIST SCHEDULE MONDAY Bob Herbert and Paul Krugman TUESDAY Nicholas D. Kristof and John Tierney WEDNESDAY Maureen Dowd and Thomas L. Friedman THURSDAY David Brooks and Bob Herbert FRIDAY Thomas L. Friedman and Paul Krugman SATURDAY Maureen Dowd and John Tierney SUNDAY David Brooks, Nicholas D. Kristof and Frank Rich
Milbank, Dowd Weigh In on Gannon/Guckert (FR Mentioned)
A professional politician has ups and downs in his or her career; you win some races, and you lose some.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=czj   (929 words)

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