Detroit Mayor charged with perjury

Detroit Mayor charged with perjury

By COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer
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DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy also charged the popular yet polarizing 37-year-old mayor with obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.

Former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath that she and Kilpatrick had a romantic relationship in 2002 and 2003, was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.

"Some have suggested that the issues in this case are personal or private," Worthy said. "Our investigation has clearly shown that public dollars were used, people's lives were ruined, the justice system severely mocked and the public trust trampled on. ... This case is about as far from being a private matter as one can get."

The charges could signal the end of Kilpatrick's six-year career as mayor of one of America's largest cities.

Perjury is a felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. A felony conviction would mean Kilpatrick's immediate expulsion from office under the Detroit City Charter. Calls for his resignation have surfaced since late January and the Detroit City Council asked him to step down last week.

Kilpatrick was to hold a noon news conference but had not yet appeared and his office and lawyers were not commenting. A message seeking comment from Beatty's attorney, Jeffrey Morganroth, was not returned.

Kilpatrick has said he would not resign and last week said he expects to be vindicated when all aspects of the scandal are made public.

Worthy said she expected the mayor and Beatty to turn themselves in by 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Worthy began her investigation the day after the Free Press published excerpts of the embarrassing text messages in late January. The messages called into question testimony Kilpatrick and Beatty gave in a lawsuit filed by two police officers who alleged they were fired for investigating claims that the mayor used his security unit to cover up extramarital affairs.

In court, Kilpatrick and Beatty denied having an intimate relationship, but the text messages reveal that they carried on a flirty, sometimes sexually explicit dialogue about where to meet and how to conceal their trysts.

Kilpatrick is married with three children. Beatty was married at the time and has two children.

The city agreed to pay $8.4 million to the two officers and a third former officer who filed a separate lawsuit. Documents released last month showed Kilpatrick agreed to the settlement in an effort to keep the text messages from becoming public.

The text messages published by the Free Press revealed a romantic discourse.

"I'm madly in love with you," Kilpatrick wrote on Oct. 3, 2002.

"I hope you feel that way for a long time," Beatty replied. "In case you haven't noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!"

Worthy filed eight counts against Kilpatrick and seven against Beatty.

Kilpatrick faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, misconduct in office, perjury in a court proceeding and two counts of perjury other than in a court proceeding.

Beatty is charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury in a court proceeding and two counts of perjury other than in a court proceeding.

For Beatty, who attended high school with Kilpatrick and managed his campaigns for Michigan's state House and the mayor's office, the scandal forced her to resign.

City lawyers and Kilpatrick's attorneys waged a futile legal battle to keep documents related to the lawsuit settlement and text messages from public eyes.

Calls for his resignation surfaced in late January from some city union leaders and Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox repeated that call.

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Stuffed up? Humidifiers can help By Lisa A. Flam

Source: http://lohudmoms.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/MOMS02/301280001

(Original publication: January 28, 2008)

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These humidifiers by Crane release mist, and are examples of the many kid-friendly designs available.

Winter brings the stuffy combination of cold season and months of dry air when the heat goes on.

If you're struggling with a dry cough, or reaching for the tissue box to try - in vain - to blow your nose so you can breathe, it's time to consider a humidifier.

By putting moisture back into a dry environment, the machines can bring relief to victims of the dreaded winter cold. Humidifiers can help ease dryness in the lining of the nose, the bronchial tubes and the lungs, said Jim King, a family physician in Selmer, Tenn.

"The water evaporates into the air, and then you can breathe it into the nasal passages and it keeps everything moist so it's easier to clear and breathe," said King, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. "If you have a lot of congestion and you're stopped up and can't clear the secretions, it will be a benefit."

Humidifiers are also touted as a way to help with scratchy throats, chapped lips, dry skin, and congestion from sinus problems, allergies and asthma as well as household problems such as static electricity, peeling wallpaper and cracks in paint and wood furniture due to low humidity.

King says anyone can use a humidifier, but he mostly recommends one for children, who have small nasal passages, and can't always blow their noses by themselves.

Lisa Schroeder, a mother of two from Mamaroneck, said a humidifier worked well for her 4-year-old son, John, when he was younger. She planned to buy one for her daughter, Mary, who turns 1 in February.

"It's so dry all winter long," Schroeder said. "It's good for the nasal passages and to keep them free of stuffiness so they can breathe easier through the night."

Just remember, humidifiers must be cleaned regularly to keep them clear of bacteria that can make you sick. And a humidifier isn't a wonder cure.

"You're not curing anything," King says. "You're trying to treat the symptoms and make them more comfortable."

Choosing a machine

The main difference among machines is how the water in the humidifier is turned into moisture in the air.

Among the most common types is an evaporative humidifier, which has a fan that blows air over a wet wick and puts moisture in the air. Another option is an ultrasonic humidifier, which uses ultrasound vibrations that turns water into a cool mist.

In a warm-mist humidifier, a heating unit boils water before cooling the steam in a warm air stream. Some of these have a medicine cup in which special products to help with cold symptoms can be added.

It's mostly a matter of personal preference on whether you prefer warm or cool moisture, but cool-mist humidifiers are most often recommended for children because of a risk of accidental scalding from the hot water.

King recommends that the humidifier be aimed away from cold sufferers, so they don't feel cold and damp, and that it be cleaned regularly, so bacteria and mold do not grow and get put into the air and make you sicker than you already are.

Just for kids

Since the fall, when cold medicines for children under 2 were pulled off the market amid safety concerns, cool-mist humidifiers have been recommended anew as a non-medicinal way to relieve symptoms.

One fun choice for kids' rooms is a humidifier from Crane USA. Since 2005, the company has been making cool-mist ultrasonic humidifiers in the shape of animals, including a frog and penguin, and several characters known to children everywhere: SpongeBob SquarePants, Thomas the Tank Engine and the oh-so-pretty Hello Kitty.

"These are familiar characters, so if you do have a child that's sick, it's just a nice familiar character in the room," says Katie Sotor, a spokeswoman for Crane.

A warm-mist humidifier that came out in the fall aimed at parents is the Vicks Germ Free Humidifier, which uses UV light that is said to kill virtually all bacteria and mold. The humidifier also has a locking system the company says will prevent children from reaching the water tank and is designed not to spill if it is knocked over.

What to look for

Consumer Reports recommends considering how large an area needs to be humidified and how willing you are to tend to the humidifier (cleaning and refilling).

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February 21, 2008

Judith Jacobson of Upper Dublin, Pa.; and Dr. Irving Jacobson of

Cinnaminson, N.J., announce the engagement of their son, Jared Ari Jacobson, to Amy L. Kahan, daughter of Joann Leary of Somers Point, N.J., and Robert Kahan of Phila delphia.

Amy attended Drexel University, and is the vice president of development at Tara Developers.

Jared attended Boston University, and went on to earn a Juris Doctor degree from the St. John's University School of Law in New York. He practices corporate law in Manhattan, where the couple lives.

Amy is the granddaughter of Vance and Miriam Gallagher, Pearl Kahan and the late Phillip Kahan. Jared is the grandson of the late Paul and Helen Jacobson, and the late Dr. Louis and Faigel Silverman.

The couple is planning a December wedding in Philadelphia.

William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82

William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82

By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer
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William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.

His assistant Linda Bridges said Buckley was found dead by his cook at his home in Stamford, Conn. The cause of death was unknown, but he had been ill with emphysema, she said.

Editor, columnist, novelist, debater, TV talk show star of "Firing Line," harpsichordist, trans-oceanic sailor and even a good-natured loser in a New York mayor's race, Buckley worked at a daunting pace, taking as little as 20 minutes to write a column for his magazine, the National Review.

Yet on the platform he was all handsome, reptilian languor, flexing his imposing vocabulary ever so slowly, accenting each point with an arched brow or rolling tongue and savoring an opponent's discomfort with wide-eyed glee.

"I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition," he wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1986. "I asked myself the other day, `Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?' I couldn't think of anyone."

Buckley had for years been withdrawing from public life, starting in 1990 when he stepped down as top editor of the National Review. In December 1999, he closed down "Firing Line" after a 23-year run, when guests ranged from Richard Nixon to Allen Ginsberg. "You've got to end sometime and I'd just as soon not die onstage," he told the audience.

"For people of my generation, Bill Buckley was pretty much the first intelligent, witty, well-educated conservative one saw on television," fellow conservative William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, said at the time the show ended. "He legitimized conservatism as an intellectual movement and therefore as a political movement."

Fifty years earlier, few could have imagined such a triumph. Conservatives had been marginalized by a generation of discredited stands — from opposing Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to the isolationism which preceded the U.S. entry into World War II. Liberals so dominated intellectual thought that the critic Lionel Trilling claimed there were "no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation."

Buckley founded the biweekly magazine National Review in 1955, declaring that he proposed to stand "athwart history, yelling `Stop' at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who urge it." Not only did he help revive conservative ideology, especially unbending anti-Communism and free market economics, his persona was a dynamic break from such dour right-wing predecessors as Sen. Robert Taft.

Although it perpetually lost money, the National Review built its circulation from 16,000 in 1957 to 125,000 in 1964, the year conservative Sen. Barry Goldwater was the Republican presidential candidate. The magazine claimed a circulation of 155,000 when Buckley relinquished control in 2004, citing concerns about his mortality, and over the years the National Review attracted numerous young writers, some who remained conservative (George Will, David Brooks), and some who didn't (Joan Didion, Garry Wills).

"I was very fond of him," Didion said Wednesday. "Everyone was, even if they didn't agree with him."

Born Nov. 24, 1925, in New York City, William Frank Buckley Jr. was the sixth of 10 children of a a multimillionaire with oil holdings in seven countries. The son spent his early childhood in France and England, in exclusive Roman Catholic schools.

His prominent family also included his brother James, who became a one-term senator from New York in the 1970s; his socialite wife, Pat, who died in April 2007; and their son, Christopher, a noted author and satirist ("Thank You for Smoking").

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Obituary - Adelman

Gilbert R. Adelman, 75, of Abington, a dentist for more than 40 years, died of heart failure Monday at Abington Memorial Hospital. Dr. Adelman retired in 1986 after practicing in an office in the Franklinville section of North Philadelphia. He grew up in the Strawbridge Mansion area and graduated in 1938 from Northeast High School. He received his dental degree in 1945 from Temple University's School of Dentistry. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps in Europe. Surviving are his wife of 52 years, Lorna Goodman Adelman; son, Ronald; daughters Roslyn Perlson, Karen Stesis and Debra Schachter; a brother; and 10 grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 am today at Goldsteins' Rosenberg's Raphael-Sacks, 6410 N. Broad St. Burial will be in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Trevose. Published on December 16, 1998, Page R05, Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) Gilbert R. Adelman, 75, of Abington, a dentist for more than 40 years, died of heart failure Monday at Abington Memorial Hospital. Dr. Adelman retired in 1986 after practicing in an office in the Franklinville section of North Philadelphia. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps in Europe. Surviving are his wife of 52 years, Lorna Goodman Adelman; son, Ronald; daughters Roslyn Perlson, Karen Stesis and Debra Schachter; a brother; and 10 grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 am today at Goldsteins' Rosenberg's Raphael-Sacks, 6410 N. Broad St. Burial will be in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Trevose. Published on December 16, 1998, Page B07, Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) LORNA ADELMAN (nee Goodman) passed away on April 6, 2022. Wife of the late Dr. Gilbert Adelman. Mother of Roslyn (Alec) Perlson, Ronald (Joan) Adelman, Debra (David) Schachter and the late Karen (Louis) Stesis. Sister of Norman (Arlene) Goodman. Bubbie of Dana Gilson, Jennifer (Greg) Mehok, Sara (Manish) Singla, Andrew Stesis, Stacy Adelman, Julie (Alex) Shtraks, Brad (Bianca) Adelman, Joshua (Rachel Sakofs) Schachter, Michele (Nico) Museyri and Brian (Michele) Schachter. Great Grandmother of Sophia, Emma, Isabelle, Sydney, Shai, Nora, Sarina, Eliana, Yonatan, Ilan, Dalia and Noa. Relatives and friends are invited to Funeral Services Friday 10 AM precisely at GOLDSTEINS' ROSENBERG'S RAPHAEL-SACKS, 6410 N. BROAD ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA 19126. Interment Roosevelt Memorial Park. Shiva will be observed through Thursday, April 14 at the home of Debra and David Schachter. Shiva Minyanim will take place Saturday 8:15 PM, and Sunday through Wednesday at 7:30 PM. Contributions in her memory may be made to Jewish National Fund, www.jnf.org, The Michael Levin Lone Soldier Foundation, www.michaellevinlonesoldier.org, or Friends of the IDF, www.fidf.org. Published in Legacy from Apr. 6 to Apr. 7, 2022. Source: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/legacy/obituary.aspx?pid=201756330

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