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pos t ed Sept . 19, 2008 pulled nearly even. Sullivan's efforts failed, so Stevens is facing a
jury with little knowledge of the Last Frontier. Asked earlier in the This Call to the Bullpen Is Eroding My
Mistaken Authority week what the name of Stevens' state called to mind, one Stomach Lining
Congress should say potential juror offered, "Alaska is cold." The cruel torture of watchi ng the New York
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power. posted Sep 25, 2008 By Josh Levin
This gave both attorneys the opportunity to more or less invent
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the place in question. Girdwood, Morris told the jurors, "is like a
pos t ed Sept . 17, 2008
ski town," full of Stevens consiglieres like Veco CEO Bill Allen and
Search for more Bob Persons, the owner of the Double Musky Inn in Girdwood, who
Jurisprudence helped oversee the now-infamous renovations to the Stevens'
articles "chalet." "They're old-school," Morris said of Stevens' friends.
"Those he trusts know how to get things done for the senator,
Subscribe to the very, very subtly. That's the way he wanted it."
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archive sat oddly with his patrician mien (he has defended Oliver North,
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among others). But in Sullivan's telling, Persons became "Walking New Debate Rules Allow For One 15-Second
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a day around town, regardless of the weather, than for his Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:33:28 -0400
tangential association with the biggest Alaskan political scandal in
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a generation.
heeling his constituents. If he had pursued his corruption with Should Drug Companies Reveal Payments to
any seriousness, couldn't the man who snagged $100 million for Doctors?
the University of Alaska to study the energy-generating potential Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:10:38 GMT
of the aurora borealis have done better for himself than a
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But it is a legal cliché that the big fish often get caught on the
small stuff. So, Sullivan spent most of the morning sloughing the
responsibility for the home remodel onto someone the prosecution Today's Headlines
barely mentioned: Stevens' wife, Catherine, who sat in the second
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row of the courtroom. "It is with a little discomfort that I warn you
Wed, 24 September 2008 18:05:36 GMT
we have to look at the relationship between Ted and Catherine,"
Sullivan said before diving in. Stevens had "no instinct for A French Kiss for Spike
design," and it was Catherine who handled the couple's finances, Wed, 24 September 2008 17:41:42 GMT
fielding the bills or lack thereof for the home improvements.
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"When it comes to things in and around the teepee, the wife
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controls," Sullivan said. "That might seem a little old-fashioned,
but Ted Stevens is old-fashioned." He'd better hope the jurors
are, too.
Sullivan also argued that the second round of work Veco did on
the chalet, including the installation of a $20,000 roof heating
system, was necessary only because the initial work they did was
shoddy in places—meaning that Stevens shouldn't have had to
pay for it, anyway.
Maybe, but that's the thing about home remodels: They always
end up costing you more than you thought they would.
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