15 Figures Who Made Watergate an American Epic

On May 17, 1973, Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., gavelled in the first public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, better known as the Senate Watergate Committee. The impending result was almost unfathomable.

The months that followed would bring testimony from White House officials and questions from senators on whether „illegal, improper or unethical activities“ had been committed in connection ray ban for sale to President Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign for re-election. What had started out as a story about a bungled break-in to Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex the previous summer eventually ended in the downfall and resignation of President Nixon on Aug. 9, 1974.

Four decades later, we look back at the process that engrossed ray ban sunglasses the country and convulsed Washington with its unwavering characters and cliff-hanging moments.

Here are some of those figures and instances:

Sam Ervin

Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken from archival PBS video of the Senate Watergate hearings.

Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. was chairman of the Senate Watergate committee in 1973.

At the start of the television hearings in May of that year, Ervin noted:

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were in effect breaking into the home of every citizen of the United States. And if these allegations prove to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or other precious property of American citizens, but something much more valuable — their most precious raybanforsala heritage: the right to vote in a free election.

Ervin joined the Senate in 1954. As a freshman, he served on a committee charged with studying whether Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., required censure for his anti-Communist investigations. In his 20 years in the Senate, the Harvard-trained statesman became well-known for his constitutional knowledge, according to the U.S. Senate Historical Office. cheap ray ban Ervin retired from the Senate in December 1974. He died April 23, 1985. He was 88.

Howard Baker

Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., was vice chairman of the Senate Watergate committee in 1973.

During proceedings, Baker asked a question that would become very well-known in Washington: „What did the president know, and when did he know it?“

Baker served three terms in the U.S. Senate, from 1967 to 1985, and as majority leader for the last four years of his tenure. He was a presidential hopeful for the 1980 Republican nomination, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984, worked as President Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff from 1987 to 1988, served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2001 to 2005 and co-founded the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank in 2007. Baker, now 87, is senior counsel to the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz.

Livingston High School Athletes Walk the Runway at Fashion Show

Livingston High School students were dressed to the nines Tuesday as they took to the runway raybanforsala for the annual Lancers Fashion Show.

Hundreds of people and students packed into Livingston High School Tuesday night to see debonair and dapper students strut their stuff in the Big L Club’s senior athlete fashion show, which kicks off the countdown to graduation for the class of 2013.

Senior student Max Shevrin, who roaming the hallways with with friends shortly before the fashion show began, said he was excited about getting up on stage.

“I thought it was cool to be part of the senior class,” said Shevrin. “Obviously it’s our last year in high school, so I thought it would be a good time to get together with all the other student athletes around the high school and participate in one giant event.”

It was also a banner year at the fashion show with more than 80 senior athletes participating. Put on by the high school sports booster club, the night began with the township’s annual Taste of Livingston. Parents and students had an abundance of delicious foods to savor which were supplied by more than 40 local restaurants. Contributing to the fundraiser was also a tricky-tray featuring gifts donated by local businesses.

Leading up to the fashion show, senior students choose their wardrobe from local businesses, who fitted and altered the clothes.

Livingston High School Principal Mark Stern was also gallantly dressed for the occasion. Sporting a white bow-tie and black jacket with coattails, Stern was wearing clothes a Livingston gentleman would have worn 200 years ago at the time of its founding.

Vice President of the Big L Club Anna Pence said the fashion show is a much anticipated event ray ban for sale at the school.

“The kids wait until their senior year to get on stage,” said Pence. “It’s a really great ending to their senior year.”

In addition, the fashion show begins the march toward graduation. Next on the seniors’ agenda is prom, then the senior dinner and finally graduation.

“This is the seniors’ last coming together before they graduate and they go off to their respective colleges,” said Pence.

Tuesday also marked the Big L Club’s largest fundraiser of the year, and is expected to raise about $10,000. The night of fundraising will go toward at least 10 $1,000 scholarships the Big L Club will give to deserving graduating senior athletes at the end of the year.

Grabbing a bite to eat before she took the stage, senior high school student Meaghan Annett, who will be attending Tuffts University in Massachusetts in the fall, said she and her friends have attended previous fashion shows over ray ban sunglasses the cheap ray ban years and they were excited to finally get their chance to be in the spotlight.

“We thought since it was our senior year it would be a great way to leave off and it’s one last thing to do before college,” said senior Ariel Shafir, who will be attending Pennsylvania State University in Pennsylvania in the fall.

Russia Expels American on Spy Allegations

In an episode that appeared more costume party than spy thriller, Russian authorities detained American Ryan C. Fogle near a Moscow park late Monday, according to Russia’s spy service—which said he was wearing a dirty-blond wig and carrying „special technical equipment“ as well as several pairs of glasses and „a large sum“ of cash.

Mr. Fogle had been trying to recruit a Russian intelligence services officer responsible for fighting Islamist terrorists in Russia’s Caucasus region, the Federal Security Service said.

The agency, known as the FSB, also alleged he had been carrying a Russian-language recruitment note explaining how to set up a secure Gmail account and promising „up to $1 million a year with the promise of additional bonuses“ for information.

The State Department confirmed ray ban sunglasses that a U.S. diplomat had been detained and ray ban for sale released by Russian authorities but declined to say for which agency Mr. Fogle worked. U.S. State Department spokesman raybanforsala Patrick Ventrell said only that he was „an American staff member of the embassy.“ Pressed to say if that meant he may not be a foreign-service officer, he said, „right, I just don’t have any more information, one way or another.“

The expulsion comes a week after Secretary of State John Kerry cheap ray ban traveled to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin in the latest effort to patch up a relationship jarred by disputes over issues from European security and Mideast uprisings to human rights.

Sharon Socol views the fashion world through an outsider’s lens

For more than seven years, when her husband Howard was chief executive officer of Barney’s New York starting in 2001, Sharon Socol was his „plus one“ at all manner of fashion events, from runway shows to fancy dinners and glitzy parties. A self-described „fashion raybanforsala outsider,“ Socol began photographing the people and events — „My camera is a protective shield which permits me to enter safely into a ray ban for sale world cheap ray ban I find both fascinating and frightening,“ she writes in an essay contained in her new book, which arose from her work during those years.

The book, „Plus One: An Outsider’s Photographic Journey into the World of Fashion,“ is available on Barney’s website ($60).

But you can meet the author in person and buy a signed copy when she makes an appearance on Tuesday at Neiman Marcus Beverly Hills. The event is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. in the ladies‘ shoe salon on level one of the store at 9700 Wilshire Blvd.

Socol focused not just on fashion’s elite, but also on the dressmakers, choreographers, makeup and hair artists, waiters and bouncers behind the scenes.

What did she learn as an outsider during those years in the 2000s? „The process of putting together this book helped me appreciate the people who live, work, breathe and crave fashion,“ she writes. „My unexpected plunge into this world taught me that someone could be glamourous one moment and ordinary the ray ban sunglasses next. Here were frivolity, superficiality and momentary highs, yet also dedication, history, passion and belief.“

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While Rivera, baseball’s career saves leader, was conducting an interview in the dugout on Saturday after meeting some local families that had endured hard times, Chamberlain was signing autographs in front of the dugout and communicating rather loudly with family members in the stands in order to be heard over the public-address system.

Rivera did not like it and gestured to Chamberlain to lower his voice. According to The New York Times, Chamberlain went up to Rivera after the interview and said, „Don’t shush me.“

Rivera thought his team mate was kidding, but Chamberlain persisted, telling him „I’m serious. Don’t ever shush me.“

Rivera brushed Cheap Converse off the exchange and said he would handle the matter internally with Chamberlain.

Chamberlain, who is on the disabled list with an oblique injury, said before Sunday’s game against the Royals that there was no need to apologize to Rivera.

„For what? It’s over with. It’s done,“ Chamberlain said. „It’s really not an issue in the first place.“

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The Yankees placed infielder Eduardo Nunez on the 15-day disabled list with a rib cage injury. Nunez had been the primary replacement for Derek Jeter at shortstop while Jeter recovers from his ankle injury.

Also, Mark Teixeira was shifted to the 60-day disabled list as a procedural move. Teixeira is still expected to return in Converse All Star early June.

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A year after Philip Humber threw the 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history, the Houston Astros designated the right-hander for assignment.

On April 21, 2012, Humber was with the Chicago White Sox when he pitched the perfect game. He finished last season with a 9-9 record and a 3.75 ERA in 163 innings.

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The St. Louis Cardinals placed right-hander Jake Westbrook on the 15-day disabled list with elbow inflammation.

Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak told KMOX Radio that John Gast will be called up from Triple-A Memphis on Tuesday to start a game against the New York Mets in Westbrook’s place.

The Cardinals will move injured closer Jason Motte, who is recovering from reconstructive elbow surgery, to the 60-day disabled list.

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The Colorado Rockies placed outfielder Michael Cuddyer on the 15-day disabled list with a neck injury and recalled outfielder Charlie Blackmon from Triple-A Colorado Springs on Sunday, the team announced.

The 34-year-old Cuddyer has what the team described as an inflamed cervical disk.

The Yips: Difficult to understand, difficult to cure

Inside Major League clubhouses, it a taboo subject, confined to the office of a team psychologist or to the walls encompassing a player’s brain.

Experts take extra Converse All Star 2013 precaution with how they define it, fearful of classifying a player as having some deficiency or being a liability.

To those observing, it seems like a predicament with a simple solution. To those enduring, there are no answers, only a proliferating number of questions.

Much has been written about „the Yips,“ but much about the condition remains clouded.

„We really don’t talk about it as baseball players,“ said 19-year veteran Jason Giambi. „It’s just this unwritten rule. You feel terrible for [those experiencing it].“

The Yips is no mythological plague. For reasons unknown, players can encounter a mental hurdle that flat-out won’t permit them to complete one of the game’s mundane on-field tasks. Infielders suddenly can’t find the first baseman’s glove on routine throws. Catchers can’t execute the simple task of returning the ball to the pitcher.

„It’s the real deal,“ said Jason Tyner, who played in the big leagues Chuck Taylor All Star from 2000-08. „These guys are throwing the ball 50 feet off their mark. Or they spike one halfway. I don’t even know how to describe it.“

Dr. Charlie Maher, Indians sports psychologist, avoids using the term „yips,“ and instead refers to the circumstance as „misplaced focus.“ That removes the notion that the player is suffering from some sort of daunting ailment.

„If their focus really is misplaced, it’s on results,“ Maher said. „It’s on what people are thinking. It gets them away from the fluidity of the process of the game. As a result, it snowballs. They start to judge themselves. They start to tense themselves up. The end result is that the ball is not going where it’s supposed to go.“

From 1968-72, Steve Blass compiled 78 wins, a 3.05 ERA, an All-Star Game nod and a second-place finish in National League Cy Young Award balloting. Over that stretch, he averaged three walks per nine innings. He unraveled in 1973, when he walked 84 batters in 88 2/3 innings, posted a 3-9 mark and a 9.85 ERA. He last pitched in a Major League game in 1974, one day before his 32nd birthday. He officially retired in the spring of 1975, and the phrase „Steve Blass disease“ was coined to identify a player who suddenly loses the ability to accurately throw a ball.

The syndrome has notably afflicted such players as Steve Sax, Mackey Sasser and Chuck Knoblauch. After he proved incapable of throwing the ball to first base, Knoblauch relocated to left field from his original position of second base.

Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, a Gold Glove Award recipient in 2009, made Converse All Star four throwing errors in a five-game span in April. His manager, Davey Johnson, attempted to pin the problem on Zimmerman’s surgically repaired shoulder. Converse Chuck Taylor Zimmerman, however, deflected that excuse and hinted that the issue was a mental one.

„People make errors. It’s going to happen again before the year is over,“ Zimmerman said. „Everyone is going to make errors. It’s part of the Cheap Converse game. Nobody wants it to happen. Of course, you feel bad. You play baseball long enough, that kind of stuff happens. It’s part of the game. If you let it consume you, that’s what gets you.“

Daniel Snyder says Redskins will never change name

Daniel Snyder is owner of the Washington pro football team he grew up adoring. Would he ever consider changing the team name that many American Indians and others believe is a racial slur?

„We will never change the name of the team,“ Snyder told USA TODAY Sports this week. „As a lifelong Redskins fan, and I think that the Redskins fans understand the great tradition and what it’s all about and what it means, so we feel pretty fortunate to be just working on next season.“

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What http://www.poloshipping.co.uk/sweaters-c-27.html if his football team loses an ongoing federal trademark lawsuit? Would he consider changing it then?

„We’ll never change the name,“ he said. „It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use Ralph Lauren Shop caps.“

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Snyder does not often speak to the media about the case. He talked to USA TODAY Sports very briefly about it Tuesday afternoon, following a longer interview with him and his wife Tanya about her selection as mother of the year by the American Cancer Society.

Later http://www.poloshipping.co.uk/tees-c-1.html Thursday, USA TODAY Sports will publish a story about Amanda Blackhorse, who is Navajo and the named plaintiff in the trademark suit. She said if she ever had the chance, she’d ask Snyder if he would dare to call her a redskin to her face.

„I think the best way is to just not comment on that Ralph Lauren Outlet type of stuff,“ Snyder said. „I don’t know her.“

Colossal hydrogen bridge between galaxies could be fuel line for new stars

Newly published radiotelescope observations of this segment of what researchers have dubbed the “cosmic web” reveal that about half of the neutral hydrogen gas in the bridge is contained in rotating clumps the size of dwarf galaxies. Neutral hydrogen – atoms with one proton and one electron – represents the raw material for new stars.

“If this gas is being accreted by the galaxies, then we need to understand how they’re doing that. That information could, in principle, help us understand how galaxies like Andromeda, like our own Milky Way, can acquire gas to form new stars,” Polo Ralph Lauren says Spencer Wolfe, a PhD candidate in astronomy at West Virginia University and the lead scientist on the project.

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Over the past decade, astronomers have come to appreciate the potential of gas between galaxies to provide fresh fuel for making stars in spiral galaxies.

Star formation in the universe appears to have peaked some 10 billion to 11 billion years ago. Stellar http://www.ralphlaurenit2013.com/ralph-lauren-bambino-bambini-hoodies-c-39_40.html birthrates these days are less than 10 percent of what they were then, notes Robert Braun, an astronomer at the Australia Telescope National Facility in Epping, New South Wales.

Left to their own devices, galaxies have on average about 1 billion to 2 billion years worth of gas in the cosmic tank, a condition that has existed throughout most of the universe’s history, Dr. Braun writes in an e-mail. Many of them, therefore, should have stopped forming stars billions of years ago. Moreover, the total mass of stars in the universe today is about five times higher than the amount of neutral hydrogen available 12 billion years ago, suggesting that the universe’s larger inventory of ionized hydrogen kept star formation going in some way.

Researchers have identified other mechanisms for the galactic equivalent of in-flight refueling. For instance, gas gets recycled for a time through successive generations of stars. Collisions, mergers, and even near-misses between galaxies can trigger bursts of star formation. But filaments of ionized hydrogen appear to be the only features persistent enough to keep galaxies stocked with stars over billions of years of cosmic history. Somehow, within those filaments, enough of the ionized gas condenses into the neutral form to serve as new stellar nurseries.

The filament or bridge Mr. Wolfe and his team studied appears between the Milky Way’s nearest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Triangulum Galaxy. Andromeda is some 2.5 million light-years from Earth, while the Triangulum is roughly 3 million light-years away.

The presence of neutral hydrogen in the bridge was first http://www.ralphlaurenit2013.com/ralph-lauren-bambino-bambini-di-bassa-statura-ma-polo-c-39_43.html reported in 2004 and confirmed in follow-up observations published last year. But it’s fiendishly difficult to Ralph Lauren Outlet detect. One way neutral hydrogen betrays its presence is via radio waves, with a tell-tale signal at about the same frequency that Ralph Lauren Sale a typical cell-phone uses. But the clumps are so wispy that their radio emissions were too faint for detailed studies with the radio telescopes used in the early work

Baxter’s Alzheimer’s disease drug fails in late-stage trial

Baxter’s treatment, known as Gammagard, did show a benefit in some patients with moderate disease and in those who are carriers of a gene known as ApoE4 that raises the risk of Alzheimer’s. The company said it will continue to analyze results in these populations, but more trials would be needed to support the drug’s approval.

An earlier study of the treatment released last summer showed the drug help stabilize the disease in four patients for at least three years, raising hope that the drug from Baxter International Inc will prove effective in larger trials. Most Alzheimer’s patients typically decline over three to six months.

There are no licensed drugs that can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s, and currently approved medications only treat symptoms.

Shares of Baxter fell 3.29 percent, or $3.32, to $67.99 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Gammagard was the only remaining drug in late-stage development for Alzheimer’s, a brain-wasting disease that slowly robs patients of their ability to think and care for themselves.

After 18 months of treatment, patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease taking the drug failed to show a significant benefit on scales of cognitive decline and functional ability compared with those taking a placebo, missing the study’s two main goals.

Dr. Norman Relkin of Weill Cornell Medical College, who led the study, said in a telephone interview that were „some significant findings“ in Ralph Lauren UK another dementia screening test known as the modified mini-mental state in a subgroup of patients who were ApoE4 carriers.

„There were also Ralph Lauren Shop trends http://www.poloshipping.co.uk/men-polo-c-11.html of significance looking at patients with moderate versus mild disease,“ he said.

Relkin said the study reflects a „very different type of result“ than seen in Ralph Lauren Outlet most other phase 3 trials of immunotherapies, including results of Eli Lilly & Co’s treatment solanezumab and Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson’s bapineuzumab, both of which seemed to show an effect in patients with mild disease.

However, none of the secondary endpoints in these groups showed a statistically significant difference. Relkin said the results are worth further study.

Based on the results, Baxter will reconsider its Alzheimer’s program and will determine next steps after full data analyses, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The company said it is not changing its financial guidance for 2013.

„We are currently re-evaluating our approach,“ Ludwig Hantson, president of Baxter’s bioscience business, said on a conference call. Hantson said the company will present full data from the http://www.poloshipping.co.uk/kids-c-36.html study at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in July in Boston.

„While the headline is disappointing, we believe expectations were low, and this may prove a clearing event for the stock,“ said BMO analyst Joanne Wuensch in a note to investors.

Although there was no response to the drug at the lower 200 mg dose, Wuensch said the full results may show whether there was any response the higher, 400 mg dose.

Baxter said it was likely to make a decision about moving forward by year’s end.

Gammagard is an intravenous immune system treatment made from natural antibodies taken from young, healthy blood donors. Known generically as intravenous immunoglobulin, or IVIG, the therapy is typically used to fight infections in patients with weakened immune systems.

In the trials, there were 17 serious adverse reactions considered to be treatment-related in the study, but Hantson said the study was generally well tolerated.

Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia and the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated 5 million Americans are believed to have the disease. An estimated 38 million people worldwide are believed to have dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.

FDA Warns Pregnant Women Of Ralph Lauren Italia Migraine Medication Risks

U.S. health regulators are warning doctors and women of child-bearing age that half-a-dozen medications used to treat migraine headaches can decrease children’s intelligence if taken while their mothers are pregnant.

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that the drugs, including Depakote and Ralph Lauren Outlet Depacon, should Ralph Lauren Sale never be taken by pregnant women for the prevention of migraine headaches.

The pills, which all contain the ingredient valproate sodium, already carry a boxed warning about the risk of birth defects. But the FDA said it is adding new warnings to the drugs after a study showed they decreased IQ scores in children whose mothers Polo Ralph Lauren took them while pregnant.

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“We have even more data now that show the risks to the children outweigh any treatment benefits for this use,” said Russell Katz, the FDA’s director for neurology drugs.

Earlier this year, researchers at Emory University reported that valproate-containing drugs were connected with an 8 to 11 point reduction in IQ scores for children at age 6. The study compared children whose mothers had taken different classes of neurological drugs while pregnant. The results supported similar findings from when the children were age 3.

Depakote and similar drugs are also used to treat bipolar disorder and seizures. While the FDA said it would not contraindicate the drugs for those uses, the agency said women of child-bearing age should only them as a last resort.

“Women who can become pregnant should not use valproate unless it is essential to managing their medical condition,” the agency said in a statement.

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Depakote is marketed in the U.S. by AbbVie, which was spun off earlier this year from parent company Abbott Laboratories. AbbVie also markets several other versions of the drug, including Depacon, an injectable formulation. The FDA’s warning also affects Stavzor, a pill marketed by Noven Pharmaceuticals for bipolar disorder.

The FDA said it is working with the drug manufacturers to change their products’ pregnancy code for migraines to X. The code indicates that the drug’s risks outweigh its benefits for the given use.

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