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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Embattled Michigan Supreme Court judge to quit amid ethics probe

(Reuters) - A Michigan Supreme Court justice announced plans on Monday to step down from the bench after a judicial watchdog accused her of "blatant and brazen" ethics violations in a series of real-estate deals and filed an emergency petition for her suspension.

Attorneys for Justice Diane Hathaway, who is already the target of a federal complaint alleging mortgage fraud, informed the court on Monday she would resign effective January 21, according to a Michigan Supreme Court spokeswoman - nearly four years before her term expires.

The attorneys told the court that Hathaway, who was elected to the high court in 2008, would recuse herself from all official business until then, the spokeswoman said.

In a statement, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said he expected Governor Rick Snyder to quickly appoint a successor.

The announcement of Hathaway's pending resignation came after the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission filed an 18-page complaint against her with the Michigan Supreme Court, accusing her of fraudulently concealing assets when she and her husband sold a home in the Detroit suburbs in 2011 in a so-called "short sale."

The complaint alleges the couple lied to their lender when they sold the property for about $600,0000 less than they owed on it and, citing financial hardship, persuaded the bank to forgive the outstanding loan principal.

The commission said Hathaway and her husband engaged in a series of sham transactions, temporarily transferring other properties they owned to relatives to hide assets from the bank.

One of those deals, the sale of a property in Windermere, Florida, with an assessed value of $664,682 to Hathaway's stepdaughter for $10, has drawn scrutiny from federal prosecutors.

In November, they filed a civil forfeiture complaint against Hathaway and her husband in federal court in Florida, seeking forfeiture of the Windermere home.

In the complaint, prosecutors allege Hathaway and her husband "systematically and fraudulently transferred property and hid assets" to support the claim they could not pay off the mortgage on the home in suburban Detroit.

"Given the gravity of ongoing federal allegations and today's unprecedented Judicial Tenure Commission complaint, it is in the people's best interest that Justice Hathaway step down," State Attorney General Schuette said in a statement.

Before being elected to the Michigan Supreme Court, Hathaway, a Democrat, served for 16 years as a judge on the Wayne County Circuit Court.

A call to Hathaway's attorney, Steve Fishman, for comment was not immediately returned on Monday.

But in a response to the federal complaint in the fall, Fishman said Hathaway and her husband relied on the advice of an attorney during the short sale process and that the bank either did know or should have known about the property transfer.

Shortly after the short sale of the Detroit property, Hathaway's stepdaughter transferred the Florida property back to the couple for $10.

Hathaway and her husband have not been charged with any crime.

(Reporting by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and M.D. Golan)

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What it takes to honor Richard Ben Cramer

By Walter Shapiro

Tuesday had been reserved for pleasure reading under the flimsy guise of work. For probably the fifth or sixth time, I was going to read large chunks of ?What It Takes,? Richard Ben Cramer?s monumental 1,047-page portrait of six men who sought the presidency in 1988.

What explains the enduring appeal of a book about the run-up to a dispiriting election that featured the awkwardly patrician George Bush versus the awkwardly meritocratic Michael Dukakis? Cramer etched a psychologically revealing account of what it takes to run for president, and he wrote it with such brio, with such humor, that it is a delight to simply savor the words.

That is why I assigned the book to the students in a political science seminar that I am teaching at Yale this semester. My herculean challenge for Tuesday lay in picking the best sections. But how do you choose among Bush in a bulletproof vest struggling to throw out the first pitch at the 1986 All-Star game, a manic Joe Biden enthralled with his Delaware real-estate adventures or the dark humor of the perpetually wounded Bob Dole (?the Bobster? in Cramer?s telling)?

Instead, I awoke Tuesday to the wrenching news that Cramer died of lung cancer Monday night at the age of 62. There are moving tributes by those who knew him far better than I did. But Cramer blurbed the book that I had written on the 2004 campaign. That was an enduring honor because?more than any other author, more than any other journalist?Cramer in ?What It Takes? shaped how I look at the men and women who put their egos on the line in the quest for the White House.

Leafing at random through ?What It Takes,? searching for inspiration to write this appreciation, I stumbled upon, in the space of a few minutes, two memorable descriptions:

George W. Bush (then known as ?Junior?), the scapegrace son of the vice president, chafing over how White House staffers and his brother Jeb had gotten the good box seats at the All-Star game: ?Junior was the Roman candle of the family, bright, hot, a sparkler?and the likeliest to burn his fingers. He had all the old man?s high spirits, but none of his sense of accommodation.?

Those words, written in the late 1980s, provided a dead-on preview of George W. Bush?s presidency.

Here is Cramer writing about how Joe Biden, living on his Senate salary, acquired his Wilmington dream house: ?By the time Joe?s finished talking, it wouldn?t matter if he didn?t have a thousand dollars cash ... in fact, that no one would see any cash for years. When Joe Biden starts talking deal, he?ll talk that deal until it?s shimmering before your eyes in God?s holy light ... like the Taj Mahal ... Where do I sign??

Even though it was written more than two decades ago, that seems an apt summary of Biden?s recent negotiating style in hammering out the "fiscal cliff" agreement with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Cramer wasn?t just a press-box wise guy with perfect pitch for description. Those word pictures of George W. Bush and Biden were eerily accurate because Cramer earned them. The book, which took six years to write, was based on interviews with more than 1,000 people. These portraits were the distillation of painstaking research.

Cramer did something else that cuts against the grain of political reporting, both then and now. He not only read back quotes, but he let the candidates (or their top aides) see what was written about them before it was published. His goal was accuracy. Not just the factual accuracy of copying something correctly in a notebook, but the emotional accuracy of making sure that a passage or an anecdote was truthful.

Maybe Cramer was lucky. There was neither a demagogue nor a raging incompetent among the six 1988 candidates he wrote about (Bush, Dole, Dukakis, Biden, Gary Hart and Dick Gephardt). The sexual scandal that sunk Hart (a trip to Bimini with would-be model Donna Rice aboard a boat called ?Monkey Business?) proved tame compared to the furors that Bill Clinton later survived as both a candidate and a president. And, yes, Biden was driven out of the presidential race for stealing autobiographical lines from British politician Neil Kinnock. But nothing prompted Cramer to lose respect for his biographical subjects as people.

It was that empathy that allowed Cramer to get close to them as politicians. The odyssey that produced ?What It Takes? did not begin with gold-plated access. Instead, as Cramer explained in a 1992 C-Span interview with Brian Lamb, he quickly learned that his story was not centered in Washington. Rather, he said, ?I started talking to their schoolmates and their sisters and brothers ... and their first employers and their Cub Scout leaders and their teachers and their law school buddies and college roommates.?

As a result of this approach, Cramer said, ?By the time I got back to the candidates on the campaign trail, I wasn't asking them how many points did they need in Iowa. I was asking them about their Aunt Lucy or their Aunt Gladys.? Presidential candidates have grown increasingly adept at hiding from the press, but many of the questions that they do answer have the shelf life of a tweet.

It was difficult in 1988 to be a different-drummer reporter asking biographical questions, and it is even harder now. Campaigns are constructed around staged events and a traveling press corps is walled off from the candidate. That may, in theory, be a prudent strategy, but it means that candidates like Mitt Romney (and, yes, Barack Obama) become little more than abstract, symbolic figures.

The realities of 21st century politics suggest that another book like ?What It Takes? will never be written. Bickering aides and sentences like ?David Axelrod was angry? are the ingredients for modern campaign best-sellers. But there are lasting truths about who the presidential candidates are and where they came from that are still available. That is, if you start early enough and are willing, like Richard Ben Cramer, to take the less traveled route.

If you care about politics or journalism, if you care about the Bush family or Joe Biden, do me a favor. Just pick up a copy of ?What It Takes? and read a few pages (and hopefully a few chapters) at random. That would be a fitting memorial to its author.

It will also be a reminder of what political journalism once was?and, in the right talented hands, could be again in 2016.

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Will game live up to hype in BCS championship?

Alabama head coach Nick Saban and Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly pose with The Coaches' Trophy during a news conference for the BCS National Championship college football game Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, in Miami. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

An artist puts the finishing touches on the BCS National Championship logo on the beach Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Notre Dame takes on Alabama for the National Championship in an NCAA college football game on Monday night. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly speaks during a news conference for the BCS National Championship college football game Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, in Miami. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o kisses The Coaches' Trophy after Media Day for the BCS National Championship college football game Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, in Miami. Notre Dame faces Alabama in Monday's championship game.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

MIAMI (AP) ? Sometimes, the buildup to a game can overwhelm what actually happens on the field.

Certainly, No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama would have to play nothing less than a classic to live up to all the hype for Monday night's BCS championship.

Before either team stepped on the field in balmy South Florida, this was shaping up as one of the most anticipated games in years, a throwback to the era when Keith Jackson & Co. called one game a week, when it was a big deal for teams from different parts of the country to meet in a bowl game, when everyone took sides based on where they happened to live.

North vs. South. Rockne vs. Bear. Rudy vs. Forrest Gump.

The Fighting Irish vs. the Crimson Tide.

College football's two most storied programs, glorified in movie and song, facing off for the biggest prize.

"It's definitely not any other game," said Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley.

For the Crimson Tide (12-1), this is a chance to be remembered as a full-fledged dynasty. Alabama will be trying to claim its third national championship in four years and become the first school to win back-to-back BCS titles, a remarkable achievement given the ever-increasing parity of the college game and having to replace five players from last year's title team who were picked in the first two rounds of the NFL draft.

"To be honest, I think this team has kind of exceeded expectations," coach Nick Saban said Sunday. "If you look at all the players we lost last year, the leadership that we lost ... I'm really proud of what this team was able to accomplish."

That said, it's not a huge surprise to find Alabama playing for another title. That's not the case when it comes to Notre Dame.

Despite their impressive legacy, the Fighting Irish (12-0) weren't even ranked at the start of the season. But overtime wins against Stanford and Pittsburgh, combined with three other victories by a touchdown or less, gave Notre Dame a shot at its first national title since 1988.

After so many lost years, the golden dome has reclaimed its luster in coach Brian Kelly's third season.

"It starts with setting a clear goal for the program," Kelly said. "Really, what is it? Are we here to get to a bowl game, or are we here to win national championships? So the charge immediately was to play for championships and win a national championship."

Both Notre Dame and Alabama have won eight Associated Press national titles, more than any other school. They are the bluest of the blue bloods, the programs that have long set the bar for everyone else even while enduring some droughts along the way.

ESPN executives were hopeful of getting the highest ratings of the BCS era. Tickets were certainly at a premium, with a seat in one of the executive suites going for a staggering $60,000 on StubHub the day before the game, and even a less-than-prime spot in the corner of the upper deck requiring a payout of more than $900.

"This is, to me, the ultimate match-up in college football," said Brent Musberger, the lead announcer for ESPN.

Kelly molded Notre Dame using largely the same formula that has worked so well for Saban in Tuscaloosa: a bruising running game and a stout defense, led by Heisman Trophy finalist Manti Te'o.

"It's a little bit old fashioned in the sense that this is about the big fellows up front," Kelly said. "It's not about the crazy receiving numbers or passing yards or rushing yards. This is about the big fellas, and this game will unquestionably be decided up front."

While points figure to be at a premium given the quality of both defenses, Alabama appears to have a clear edge on offense. The Tide has the nation's highest-rated passer (AJ McCarron), two 1,000-yard rushers (Eddie Lacy and T.J. Yeldon), a dynamic freshman receiver (Amari Cooper), and three linemen who made the AP All-America team (first-teamers Barrett Jones and Chance Warmack, plus second-teamer D.J. Fluker).

"That's football at its finest," said Te'o, who heads a defense that has given up just two rushing touchdowns. "It's going to be a great challenge, and a challenge that we look forward to."

The Crimson Tide had gone 15 years without a national title when Saban arrived in 2007, the school's fifth coach in less than a decade (including one, Mike Price, who didn't even made it to his first game in Tuscaloosa). Finally, Alabama got it right.

In 2008, Saban landed one of the greatest recruiting classes in school history, a group that has already produced eight NFL draft picks and likely will send at least three more players to the pros (including Jones). The following year, the coach guided Alabama to a perfect season, beating Texas in the title game at Pasadena.

Last season, the Tide fortuitously got a shot at another BCS crown despite losing to LSU during the regular season and failing to even win its division in the Southeastern Conference. In a rematch against the Tigers, Alabama romped to a 21-0 victory at the Superdome.

The all-SEC matchup gave the league an unprecedented six straight national champions, hastening the end of the BCS. It will last one more season before giving way to a four-team playoff in 2014, an arrangement that was undoubtedly pushed along by one conference hoarding all the titles under the current system.

"Let's be honest, people are probably getting tired of us," Jones said. "We don't really mind. We enjoy being the top dog and enjoy kind of having that target on our back, and we love our conference. Obviously, we'd rather not be a part of any other conference."

This title game certainly has a different feel than last year's.

"That was really kind of a weird national championship because it was a team we already played," Jones remembered. "It was kind of another SEC game. It was in the South, and it just had a very SEC feel to it obviously. This year is much more like the 2009 game (against Texas) for me. We're playing an opponent that not only we have not played them, but no one we have played has played them. So you don't really have an exact measuring stick."

In fact, these schools have played only six times, and not since 1987, but the first of their meetings is still remembered as one of the landmark games in college football history. Bear Bryant had one of his best teams at the 1973 Sugar Bowl, but Ara Parseghian and the Fighting Irish claimed the national title by knocking off top-ranked Alabama 24-23.

If you're a long-time Notre Dame fan, you still remember Parseghian's gutty call to throw the ball out of the end zone for a game-clinching first down. If you were rooting for the Tide, you haven't forgotten a missed extra point that turned out to be the losing margin.

Of course, these Alabama players aren't concerned about what happened nearly four decades ago.

For the most part, all they know is winning.

"There's a lot of tradition that goes into Alabama football," Mosley said, "and our plan is to keep that tradition alive."

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Ravens Beat Colts 24-9: Baltimore To Play Denver Broncos In Divisional Round

BALTIMORE ? Ray Lewis' last ride now will take him to Denver.

Anquan Boldin, Joe Flacco and a staunch Baltimore defense made sure of that Sunday.

Boldin set a franchise record with 145 yards receiving, including the clinching touchdown in the Ravens' 24-9 victory over Andrew Luck and Indianapolis in an AFC wild-card game. The win delays star linebacker Lewis' retirement for at least another week as Baltimore (11-6) heads to Denver next Saturday.

The Broncos beat the Ravens 34-17 three weeks ago.

"I wanted Denver," Boldin said. "Because they beat us."

Lewis, who made 13 tackles, even lined up at fullback for the final kneel-down in his last home game of a 17-year career. He then went into a short version of his trademark dance before being mobbed by teammates.

He followed with a victory lap, his right arm, covered by a brace, held high in salute to the fans after playing for the first time since tearing his right triceps on Oct. 14 against Dallas.

"My only focus was to come in and get my team a win. Nothing else was planned," the 37-year-old Lewis said. "It's one of those things, when you recap it all and try to say what is one of your greatest moments.

" I knew how it started but I never knew how it would end here in Baltimore. To go the way it did today, I wouldn't change nothing."

The loss ended the Colts' turnaround season in which they went from 2-14 to the playoffs in coach Chuck Pagano's first year in Indianapolis (11-6). Pagano missed 12 weeks while undergoing treatment for leukemia and returned last week.

Offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, who went 9-3 as interim coach, was absent Sunday after being hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. Quarterback coach Clyde Christensen called the plays, but Baltimore's suddenly revitalized defense ? inspired by Lewis' pending retirement, no doubt ? never let standout rookie QB Luck get comfortable.

Sunday's victory enhanced the Ravens' success rate in opening playoff games. Flacco now has won at least one postseason game in all five of his pro seasons, the only quarterback to do it in the Super Bowl era.

His main target Sunday was Boldin, who had receptions of 50 and 46 yards, plus his 18-yard TD on a floater from Flacco in the corner of the end zone with 9:14 to go.

"I told (Flacco) before the game I was going to get 200 yards," Boldin said with a chuckle.

"It's huge for us. It's huge for this city, they've supported us this entire year and they expect a lot from us. In return, we want to give it to them."

Baltimore overcame the first two lost fumbles of the season by Ray Rice, too, as John Harbaugh became the first head coach with wins in his first five playoff campaigns.

Backup halfback Bernard Pierce rescued Rice with a 43-yard burst that led to Boldin's touchdown, and ran for 103 yards.

Flacco also connected with Dennis Pitta for a 20-yard TD and rookie Justin Tucker made a 23-yard field goal.

Indy's only points came on three field goals by Adam Vinatieri, from 47, 52 and 26 yards. Luck completed 28 of 54 passes for 288 yards. It was the most attempts by a rookie in a playoff game.

Reggie Wayne had 108 yards on eight receptions and moved into second in career playoff catches with 91 ? 60 behind leader Jerry Rice. But the Colts, who moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis in 1984 ? they still are despised here ? became the second NFL team to improve to 11 wins following a two-win season and then lose in the opening round of the playoffs.

The Ravens also beat the 2008 Dolphins in a similar scenario.

Both teams were sloppy early on, with Rice losing a fumble, Lewis dropping a potential interception, and Luck being stripped of the ball on a sack.

But Rice atoned with a 47-yard gain on a screen pass, leading to Vonta Leach's 2-yard touchdown.

That Pro Bowl backfield was bolstered by the kick returns of another Pro Bowl player, Jacoby Jones. He gained 60 yards on kickoff runbacks and 57 on punt returns.

Vinatieri, familiar with big kicks in the playoffs after winning two Super Bowls for New England with field goals, made a 47-yarder in the second quarter, a 52-yarder as the first half expired, and a 26-yarder near the end of the third period. But he also missed a 40-yarder wide right.

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Monday, January 7, 2013

PFT: Ray Lewis showed nerves before farewell

Austin Rivers - First Take - September 19, 2012

Rob Parker, the ESPN commentator who was suspended for 30 says after questioning whether Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is authentically black because he has a white fiancee, says he was surprised by the backlash.

Parker said on Flashpoint on Channel 4 in Detroit that he didn?t expect the reaction he got.

?I can?t believe it, Parker said. I mean, looking back at some of the comments, I can see how some people can take it out of context and run with it, but the response, and what happened over the past 30 days and everything was just shocking,? Parker said.

For Parker to now suggest he was taken out of context is surprising, considering that Parker issued an apology three weeks ago. If Parker were simply taken out of context, he would have nothing to apologize for.

But Parker did apologize, and ESPN has also acknowledged that it was wrong not only to air Parker?s comments but to re-air them on Best of First Take later on the same day that Parker made the comments. The decision to re-air the comments and give them the ?best of? seal of approval was not Parker?s, and Parker indicated that ESPN knew even before the program what he planned to say about Griffin.

Asked if ESPN producers knew what Parker would say about Griffin, Parker answered, ?Yeah, for the most part.?

?I mean, we had a discussion ? a pre-production meeting. Not every single word, but they knew which way we were going and it?s just not off the cuff, obviously,? Parker said.

And it?s the ?embrace debate? format of ESPN First Take that Parker said is the reason the show succeeds. Parker said that such comments on a less popular show wouldn?t have yielded such a big controversy.

?It also shows how big and popular a show First Take is,? Parker said.

So while Parker may not be happy about his suspension, his comments show why ESPN likes the attention.

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Indonesian anti-terror squad criticized for deaths

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ? Indonesia's U.S.-funded police anti-terror squad has killed seven suspected militants in recent days, triggering renewed allegations that the force is not trying to take suspects alive ? a trend that appears to be fueling the very extremism the predominantly Muslim country is trying to counter.

Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said Sunday that no shots were fired against officers during three related raids Friday and Saturday in eastern Indonesia, but that the suspects in at least one of the locations had explosives that were "ready" to be detonated. He said that officers from the anti-terror squad, known as Densus 88, had followed procedures because the suspects were endangering their lives, but gave few details.

Haris Azhar, chairman of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, an independent human rights group, said it appeared that the suspected militants were victims of "extrajudicial killings" and called for an independent investigation. He said Densus 88's tactics were driving militancy because they added to feelings among some Muslims that they were under siege.

"I'm worried about the deteriorating public sympathy for police who continue to use violence," he said, alleging that some suspects in the past have been shot in front of their children. "There has never been any evaluation of Densus' actions. It seems the police brutality has contributed to the growing of terrorism."

Indonesia has struggled against militants seeking a Muslim state since its independence from Dutch colonial rule in 1945.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, some of the militants came under the influence of al-Qaida while waging jihad in Afghanistan. On their return to Indonesia, they carried out four major bombings against foreign targets between 2002 and 2009.

Densus 88 was established after the first of those attacks ? the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists ? with American and Australian financial and technical assistance, which it still receives. It has been instrumental in the arrests of hundreds of militants over the last 10 years and is credited with reducing the threat of further attacks on Western interests in the country. Small groups of militants, however, have continued to attack police officers and Christians.

Since the squad's establishment, Densus officers have killed more than 70 suspects. Like in other countries, some Indonesian militants have blown themselves up when police officers have approached them and show a willingness to go down fighting, making apprehending them especially dangerous. Police figures show that militants killed 10 officers in 2012 in incidents around the country.

"They are different to conventional criminals," Amar said. "We can't take any risks because they will show no hesitation to kill law enforcers."

Taufik Andrie, research director for the Institute for International Peace Building, said it appeared that police officers hunting down militants suspected of being involved in the murder of their colleagues were not interested in taking prisoners.

"It is a cycle of violence, with each side looking for revenge," Andrie said. "There is a suspicion that some policemen are of the mind that the best kind of de-radicalization is through killing people."

Indonesia has won praise for arresting and convicting terrorists through its legal system. It executed three militants convicted in the Bali bombings and sentenced many others to long prison sentences. But there has been a high level of recidivism, and the country's counter-extremism and de-radicalization programs have been patchily carried out with limited success.

The way in which the killings by Densus 88 are used to rally support for extremism was on display Sunday at a public meeting of radicals in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital. While those present didn't need fresh reasons to despise or distrust the state, speakers held up the killings of the seven suspects as just the latest example of police brutality.

"Oh, Allah, they have killed your servants, so destroy them," said Son Hadi, from Jama'ah Ansharut Tauhid, a radical group whose members have been accused of supporting terrorism but remain free to organize. "Beware of this war on Islam."