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In June Mark Schneider, a prosecutor in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, asked Judge Eileen Gallagher to recuse herself from the rape trial of 22-year-old Norman Craig on the basis of her earlier comments suggesting that the alleged victim, a 16-year-old girl who was 10 at the time of the alleged attack, lacked credibility. When Schneider was 45 minutes late to court that afternoon, Gallagher abruptly dismissed all charges against Craig, telling Schneider, “Don’t treat me like a punk.”
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According to a Washington Post column in June, Troy and Jennifer Schally of Saint Paul, Minnesota, contacted the PBS studios in Arlington, Virginia, this spring with a request: their son Henry, who was turning three in May, had decided that he wanted the theme of his birthday party to be The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, and could the show’s staff help them make it happen? (Henry “adores” the show, his parents told the Post–he watches every night, listens to the podcast the following morning, and talks to them “about every reporter who comes on.”) Staffers sent the Schallys photos of the cast and images of the show’s logo (for decorating the cake and hats) plus a picture of Lehrer that the anchor autographed using Henry’s name for him: “Jimmy Jimmy BoBo.”
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