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List of Selected Articles from the New York Times January 24, 2008

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NYTimes.com Daily Headlines, January 24, 2008

F.D.A. Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug Trials
By GARDINER HARRIS
"Makers of drugs to treat obesity, depression and many other conditions are being asked for the first time to include suicide assessments in their clinical trials"

Justice Nomination Seen as Snub to Democrats
By PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU
"The White House renominated the Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques."

Bush and Congress Nearing a Deal on Stimulus
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
"A tax rebate is at the center of a plan to stimulate a flagging economy"

Growing Online, BBC Is to Join With MySpace
By BRIAN STELTER
"The commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday is expected to announce that it will make some of its content available on MySpace."

Spitzer Is Said to Agree to a Raise for Legislators
By DANNY HAKIM
"Gov. Eliot Spitzer has agreed to a pay raise for legislators, even as his budget called for strict cuts elsewhere, the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has told New York lawmakers."

Court Rejects Venue Change in Police Killing
By MICHAEL WILSON
"The ruling by a New York state appeals court clears the way for jury selection in the 2006 killing of Sean Bell to begin in Queens on Feb. 4."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).