WASHINGTON ? Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich landed the endorsement of New Hampshire’s largest newspaper on Sunday while rival Mitt Romney earned a dismissive wave, potentially resetting the race in the state with the first-in-the-nation primary.
For Gingrich, the former House speaker, the backing builds on his recent rise in the polls and quick work to build a campaign after a disastrous start in the summer. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has a vacation home in the state and has been called a “nearly native son of New Hampshire,” absorbed the blow heading into the Jan. 10 vote that’s vital to his campaign strategy.
“We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing,” The New Hampshire Union Leader said in its front-page editorial, which was as much a promotion of Gingrich as a discreet rebuke of Romney.
“We don’t back candidates based on popularity polls or big-shot backers. We look for conservatives of courage and conviction who are independent-minded, grounded in their core beliefs about this nation and its people, and best equipped for the job,” the endorsement said.
The Union Leader’s editorial telegraphed conservatives’ concerns about Romney’s shifts on crucial issues of abortion and gay rights were unlikely to fade. Those worries have led Romney to keep Iowa’s Jan. 3 caucuses ? where conservatives hold great sway ? at arm’s length.
At the same time, the endorsement boosts Gingrich’s conservative credentials. He spent the week defending his immigration policies against accusations that they a form of amnesty. On Monday, Gingrich takes a campaign swing through South Carolina, the South’s first primary state.
Even Democrats on Sunday were noting Gingrich’s rise.
“He’s clearly a smart guy,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York. “And look, I give him some credit for not just blowing with the winds on an issue like immigration. That showed some real courage.”
Romney, taking a few days’ break for the Thanksgiving holiday, has kept focused on a long-term strategy that doesn’t lurch from one development to another. Last week, he picked up the backing of Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota conservative, to add to his impressive roster of supporters.
The Union Leader’s rejection of Romney wasn’t surprising despite his efforts to woo state leaders. The newspaper rejected Romney four years ago in favor of Arizona Sen. John McCain, using front-page columns and editorials to promote McCain and criticize Romney. In the time since, Romney courted publisher Joseph W. McQuaid. Earlier this year Romney and his wife, Ann, had dinner with the McQuaids at the Bedford Village Inn near Manchester, hoping to reset the relationship. It didn’t prove enough.
Romney’s advisers were quick to point out that Gingrich went into October with more than $1 million in campaign debt. Romney, meanwhile, was sitting on a pile of cash and only last week began running television ads ? a luxury Gingrich can’t yet afford.
The duo’s rivals, meanwhile, tried to gain traction.
Herman Cain on Sunday criticized any immigration proposal that included residency or citizenship but struggled to explain how he would deal with the millions of people estimated to be currently living illegally in the United States.
Cain, who joined the race to great fanfare, has seen his luster fade as his seemed to have trouble articulating the nuances of his policy positions. For instance, he was unable to explain the difference between “targeted identification,” which he says would determine common characteristics of people who want to harm the United States, and racial profiling.
At the same time, Cain acknowledged that accusations that he sexually harassed several women during his days running the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s have pulled him from among the front-runners. He has flatly denied the allegations repeatedly.
“Well, obviously false accusations and confusion about some of my positions has contributed” to his fall in the polls, Cain said.
While Romney enjoys solid support in national polls, many Republicans have shifted from candidate to candidate in search of an alternative to Romney. That led to the rise ? and fall ? of potential challengers such as Cain, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Romney enjoys solid leads in New Hampshire polls, too. A poll released last week showed him with 42 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire. Gingrich followed with 15 percent in the WMUR-University of New Hampshire Granite State poll.
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas posted 12 percent support and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman found 8 percent support in that survey.
Those numbers could shift based on the backing of The Union Leader, a newspaper that proudly works to influence elections, from school boards to the White House, in the politically savvy state.
Huntsman, President Barack Obama’s former ambassador to China, said the endorsement points to how competitive the New Hampshire contest is.
“A month ago for Newt Gingrich to have been in the running to capture The (New Hampshire) Union Leader endorsement would have been unthinkable,” Huntsman said in an interview Sunday during a break in campaigning. “I think it reflects, more than anything else, the fluidity, the unpredictability of the race right now.”
The endorsement, signed by McQuaid, suggested that New Hampshire’s only state-wide newspaper was ready to assert itself again as a player in the GOP primary ? even if the newspaper has reservations.
“We don’t have to agree with them on every issue,” McQuaid wrote in the editorial that ran the width of the front page. “We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear.”
Yet with six weeks until the primary, The Union Leader’s move could again shuffle the race, further boosting Gingrich and priving a steady stream of criticism against his rivals. In recent weeks, Gingrich has seen a surge in some polls as Republicans focus more closely on deciding which candidate they consider best positioned to take on Obama.
He has also started to put together a strong campaign organization.
In New Hampshire, he brought on respected tea party leader Andrew Hemingway and his team has been contacting almost 1,000 voters each day. Gingrich hasn’t begun television advertising and has refused to go negative on his opponents.
The newspaper has a decidedly mixed record of picking candidates. It backed Steve Forbes in 2000 and Pat Buchanan’s 1992 and 1996 bids. Neither candidate won the Republican nomination.
Gingrich, who left the House in 1999 under the cloud of an ethics investigation and after disastrous midterm elections for the GOP, has faced skepticism of his personal life. He married to his third wife and acknowledged infidelity during his first marriages.
Even so, voters are giving Gingrich a look ? and the timing appears to be ideal for him.
“Romney is a very play-it-safe candidate. He doesn’t want to offend everybody or anybody,” said Drew Cline, the op-ed editor of The Union Leader. “He wants to be liked. He wants to try to reach out and be very safe, reach out to everybody, bring everybody on board.”
That isn’t the brand of candidate The Union Leader was looking to back, he said.
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Schumer was interviewed on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Cain and Cline spoke with CNN’s “State of the Union.” Huntsman appeared on “Fox News Sunday.”
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ? Denard Robinson danced with his feet and dazzled with his arm, giving Michigan an edge at quarterback against Ohio State.
Finally.
Robinson accounted for five touchdowns, helping the 17th-ranked Wolverines beat the Buckeyes 40-34 on Saturday and snap a record seven-game losing streak against their archrival. He ran left, right and center, using his speed to blow past Buckeyes, juke moves to slip tackles and sacks and even showed some power when an extra yard was needed.
The star quarterback had a chance to leave college football’s winningest program when the spread coach he came to play for ? Rich Rodriguez ? was fired in January. This victory made it all worthwhile.
“I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else except with these guys,” Robinson said. “I’m glad I stayed.”
And, coach Brady Hoke is happy he was given a chance to come back to Ann Arbor, where he was an assistant.
“I got the best job in the world,” Hoke said.
Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel used to think the same thing, especially when he made the Wolverines a target and beat them regularly when they were led by Lloyd Carr and Rodriguez.
Tressel was forced to resign nearly six months ago in the wake of a cash-for-Buckeyes memorabilia scandal that also led to quarterback Terrelle Pryor bolting for the NFL and several other players serving multiple-game suspensions in what became the program’s worst season on the field since 1999.
The Buckeyes are led by interim coach Luke Fickell ? for now ? but Tressel addressed his former players Friday before they boarded busses in Columbus, Ohio.
“To be able to see him again, I think it definitely got us pumped up,” Ohio State center Mike Brewster said.
The Buckeyes got off to a great start, scoring first on Braxton Miller’s 54-yard pass to Corey Brown and holding Robinson to a three-and-out drive.
Ohio State led twice more in the first half and had a 24-23 advantage at the break. After the Wolverines went ahead 30-24 on Robinson’s 20-yard pass to Martavious Odoms to open the second half, Ohio State pulled within three points early in the fourth and again midway through the fourth quarter.
Michigan (10-2, 6-2 Big Ten) was forced to settle for a six-point lead with 1:59 left on Brendan Gibbons’ career-long 43-yard field goal after two apparent TDs were negated by a video review and then penalties.
The Buckeyes (6-6, 3-5) had the ball once more at their 20 with 1:59 left.
“I thought we had a chance,” Miller said.
They did.
But Miller sailed a pass over Deviser Posey’s head on what could’ve been a 76-yard TD, spiked the ball to stop the clock on third down with 45 seconds left ? because he said the coaches told him to ? then threw a loss-sealing interception to Courtney Avery.
“It’s a weird feeling,” Pose said. “We’re not really used to it.”
Michigan isn’t used to beating the Buckeyes, igniting one of the most raucous celebrations anyone can remember in Ann Arbor, at least for seven years.
Robinson got the final snap cleanly, took a quick knee and set off a long, loud, maize-and-blue celebration.
Michigan Stadium’s field was flooded with fans after the home team ended a drought that lasted more than 2,900 days ? a fact the players were reminded of each day by signs Hoke posted in Schembechler Hall soon after he was hired 10 months ago.
The public-address announcer tried in vain to get the field cleared for the bands, but they stayed in a cluster around the block ‘M’ at midfield and were sprinkled throughout the rest of the field as they soaked up a long-awaited moment. About 20 minutes later, Michigan’s band finally was able to take the field.
“This game is more than a win,” defensive end Ryan Van Bergen said. “It’s bigger than that. It encompasses way more.”
Robinson also showed he can do more than run.
He was 14 of 17 ? completing 11 straight passes during one stretch ? for 167 yards with TD passes to Junior Hemingway, Odoms and Kevin Koger. Robinson ran 26 times for 170 yards and two more scores and lost a fumble.
“I thought he played an aggressive, controlled football game,” Hoke said.
Miller was pretty good, too, especially for a freshman.
He was 14 of 25 for 235 yards with TD passes to Brown and Posey and ran 16 times for 100 yards and another score.
The Wolverines also had more success creating holes for their featured running back.
Fitzgerald Toussaint had 120 yards rushing, but didn’t score because video review overturned his apparent TD late in the game. He was ruled down before getting in the end zone. Robinson then had a TD run negated by a holding penalty ? and yet another flag after the play pushed Michigan back to the Ohio State 26, forcing Gibbons to make the longest field goal of his career to force the Buckeyes to score a TD to win.
A miss there would have given Ohio State good field position with a great chance to at least tie the game and force overtime.
“There wasn’t a doubt in my mind,” Hoke insisted.
Ohio State’s Dan Herron was held to 37 yards rushing and a TD on 15 carries, but the Wolverines had trouble slowing down Miller just as they had previously with Troy Smith, who started Ohio State’s winning streak in 2004, and Pryor who extended it with last year’s win.
The Buckeyes have already said they won’t pass up the chance to go to a bowl game ? if the NCAA allows them to play in the postseason.
Regardless, Urban Meyer ? who led Florida to two national titles ? is widely expected to take over the program.
Former Ohio State running back and 1995 Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George said the fact that Meyer wasn’t in Ann Arbor with his ESPN crew was another obvious sign that he’s the next coach of the Buckeyes.
“I think it’s pretty much set in stone,” George told The Associated Press on Saturday morning at Michigan Stadium, where he was working as an analyst. “There are rumors already about what he’s signing for and who’s coaching with him. After this game, the chatter is obviously going to get even louder and I think we’ll know something definitely by Monday.”
Fickell tried his best to avoid questions about his future and pounded a table after one such query.
“Like I said, it’s about the Ohio State-Michigan game,” Fickell said. “It’s been about that since last Sunday. It’s going to be about that always.”
Hoke knows that as well as anyone.
He set the tone for a new era in the rivalry by pounding his fist on a lectern when asked about the school he grew up rooting against in Dayton, Ohio, back in January and demanding his players respond, “Ohio,” when he said “Beat,” every time they met since then.
Michigan might even make it into a BCS bowl game for the first time since 2006. Hoke took many of Rodriguez’s players and helped them perform much better ? especially on defense ? this season and figured out a way to use Robinson’s skills.
Hoke’s focus on the rivalry rubbed off on his players, including his star QB.
“You could tell that this game mattered big time to Denard,” Van Bergen said.
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By Victoria Gill
Science reporter, BBC Nature
As for many mothers-to-be, the late stages of pregnancy can be extremely awkward for dolphins, say scientists.
Gliding along beneath the ocean, it might seem that these streamlined marine mammals are unaffected by the slight swell of carrying a baby.
But a study has revealed that the females’ top swimming speed is almost halved when they are close to giving birth.
The findings are published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
They reveal just how much the animals invest in carrying their offspring.
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Even a small change in a dolphin’s shape affects their streamlining very badly?
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Lead researcher Shawn Noren, from the Institute of Marine Science at the University of California Santa Cruz, US, was originally interested in how baby dolphins learned to swim.
But while she was diving with the animals in Hawaii, and filming their behaviour, she became fascinated by how the females coped with the physical demands of pregnancy.
Dr Noren captured more than 30 hours of footage of two female dolphins swimming. She studied these animals for the period from 10 days before they gave birth, until two years after they had given birth to their calves.
During their 12 months of pregnancy, dolphins develop a characteristic “bump” in their abdomen. Dr Noren used her footage to measure exactly how this affected the animals’ movement.
“When a pregnant animal is swimming at 1.7 metres per second,” she explained, “it has the same drag force acting on it as a non-pregnant dolphin swimming at 3.4 metres per second.
“So the pregnant dolphin can only go half the speed as the non-pregnant dolphin before it gets the same drag force.”
Dr Noren also wanted to know if the animals changed the way they moved in order to compensate for this additional drag.
Tracing the animals’ movements, she found that pregnant females reduced the size of the arc through which they swept their tails – the up and down sweeping motion that propels the dolphins through the water.
“Pregnant animals had a 13% reduction in the [size] of this stroke,” Dr Noren explained. “This might be because of the way the foetus sits so far back in its body… so the abdomen area is too stretched and taught here [and] it limits their movement.”
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SPEEDY PREDATORS
- Bottlenose dolphins have three main predators: killer whales, tiger sharks and the infamous great white sharks (pictured)
- Killer whales have a relatively wide range of hunting speeds, swimming at between 14-30km/h (9-19mph)
- A typical burst of speed for a white shark is 22-25km/h (14-16mph)
- Tiger sharks can swim at an impressive 32km/h (20mph)
This slowed the animals down significantly. Their top speed was restricted to approximately 13km/h (8mph), whereas the maximum swim speed of non-pregnant dolphins is more than 22km/h (14mph).
To put that into context, the hunting speed of a mammal-eating killer whale – one of the dolphins’ natural predators – is estimated to be in the range of 14-30km/h (9-19mph).
“So you can see how pregnant animals would be much more vulnerable,” said Dr Noren.
Dr William Sellers, a zoologist from the UK’s University of Manchester, said he was surprised by the magnitude of the cost to dolphins of carrying a baby.
“It’s not surprising that being pregnant has costs,” he said, “all mammals invest a lot in their offspring, but putting an actual number on it… gives us an idea of what it’s like to be a dolphin.”
He explained that the extra drag meant that the pregnant animals would need twice as much energy to move around.
“Dolphins are this amazing streamlined shape, and it’s clear that even a small change in that shape affects that streamlining very badly.”
He added that, in order to develop effective ways to protect dolphins and safeguard their environment, scientists needed an in-depth understanding of their ecology.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) ? The three American students arrested on suspicion of throwing gasoline bombs this week during the protests in Egypt were freed on Friday, a family member and a representative of the students said.
The students — Derrik Sweeney, 19, of Georgetown University, Gregory Porter, 19, of Drexel University, and Luke Gates, 21, of Indiana University — were detained during protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding an end to military rule ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections.
The three have been officially released and authorities are escorting them to the airport where they will wait for transport home, Derrik Sweeney’s mother, Joy Sweeney, said.
“Oh my goodness, I’ll be ecstatic once my son gets on that flight — I won’t be able to contain myself,” Sweeney said. “Once he is on that plane and I know he is headed home out of Egypt I will be truly happy.”
Egypt’s state television cited an Interior Ministry official as saying the three had been detained after they threw gasoline bombs at police protecting the Interior Ministry.
The students, who were studying abroad at the American University in Cairo, were expected to be released on Thursday after Egyptian authorities did not appeal a judge’s release order. Their release was delayed for administrative reasons.
Indiana University spokesman Mark Land, who is in close contact with Gates’ family, said: “The last administrative hurdles have been cleared or are very close to being cleared and it looks like all three will be leaving Egypt in the next 24 hours.”
Land said Gates’s father had said the student “steadfastly denies that he did anything wrong” and was fine physically but anxious to return home.
As for what her son was doing at the protests, Sweeney said, “He wanted to go there to observe the Egyptian culture and to be with them.”
Protesters accuse the military of clinging to power since it took over when an uprising toppled President Hosni Mubarak on February 11. The past week of street battles between demonstrators and police have claimed more than 40 lives.
(Reporting by Eric Johnson in Chicago; Editing by David Bailey)
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New York ? The All My Children star waltzes off with TV’s coveted mirrorball trophy, defeating Ricki Lake and Rob Kardashian in Tuesday’s?Dancing finale
It’s been a clumsy season?for Dancing With the Stars. Despite launching with a buzzy cast that included?Nancy Grace, David Arquette, and pioneering transgender contestant Chaz Bono, the reality TV juggernaut’s ratings slipped to record lows. And yet, thanks to?possible wardrobe malfunctions and?fiery showdowns with the judges, Stars still made headlines this season. On Tuesday night, the series’ mirrorball trophy was handed out to All My Children actor J.R. Martinez and his partner Karina Smirnoff. Martinez beat out former talk show host and presumed frontrunner Ricki Lake, along with Rob Kardashian (brother of Kim). Did the soap star deserve the win?
Martinez is the perfect reality TV victor: The victory “couldn’t have gone to a better guy,” says Allyssa Lee at the Los Angeles Times. Martinez, after all, isn’t just a soap actor, he’s an Iraq War vet who’s dealt with severe battle injuries. With his “inspirational backstory, dedication, drive, and eternal optimism,” he had viewers rooting for him from his first step onto the dance floor. Really, “a vote against J.R. would be like a vote against America.” It certainly helped, too, that his final samba proved he knows how to “Shake Your Bon Bon.”
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His win was still a surprise: Martinez actually struggled in the performance finale, says Melissa Locker at TIME.?On top of that, he is “far less famous” than his rivals ? typically a fatal handicap for Dancing With the Stars contestants. Viewers’ votes are given equal weight to judges’ scores, which makes it all the more impressive that Martinez defeated Kardashian “despite his family’s considerable Twitter pull.” Martinez’ story must have really resonated with Americans.?
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And can you believe Lake’s poor finish? “My jaw just about hit the floor when third place went to [Ricki Lake],” says Jennifer Broadwater at The Baltimore Sun. Not only was she responsible for the season’s most memorable dance ? a tango set to the theme from Psycho ? but she was clearly the judges’ darling. Martinez was the rightful victor, a fan favorite, and a “master of a variety of dance styles,” but I was certain the runner-up would be Lake, not Kardashian.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2011) ? A team of researchers at the MedUni’s Clinical Department of Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal Radiology has demonstrated for the first time ever that there are fetal brain developments that can be measured using functional magnetic resonance tomography in the womb. This means, says study leader Veronika Sch?pf, that pathological changes to brain development will be detectable earlier than they are currently — and appropriate measures can be taken in good time.
In the study, 16 foetuses between the 20th and 36th weeks of pregnancy were measured. Measurements were taken of the brain’s resting state networks. These networks remain in a state of readiness at rest and their activity increases after appropriate stimulation. The examinations are completely stress-free for the mothers and extend “normal” MRI scans by just a few minutes.
Functional defects are detected earlier “We have been able to demonstrate, for the first time ever, that the resting state networks are formed in utero and that these can be imaged and measured using functional imaging,” explains Sch?pf, who is part of the working group led by Daniela Prayer, Head of the Department of Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal Radiology and head of the world’s leading centre for pre-natal magnetic resonance imaging at the MedUni Vienna.
This discovery means that, in future, the developmental progress of brain activity in the fetus can be measured and other findings and prognoses made regarding possible malfunctioning processes. As a result, functional defects, such as of the optic nerves or motor system, can be detected while the fetus is still in the womb — an achievement that was previously impossible — so that parents can be offered more informed advice and counselling, for example.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Mediabistro is interested in buying paidContent, but not for anywhere close to the $15 million asking price originally reported, TheWrap has learned.
In fact, not for money at all.
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MOSCOW ? Russian investigators on Thursday declined to close a probe against a Russian lawyer who died in jail of an untreated illness, extending the investigation by another two months despite his family’s pleas to end it.
Sergei Magnitsky died of an untreated pancreatitis in November 2009 after spending almost a year in a Moscow jail on tax evasion charges. Investors working in Russia have said the lawyer’s death and allegations of torture highlight corruption in the judicial system and presents a litmus test for President Dmitry Medvedev’s pledge to cement the rule of law in the country.
Magnitsky’s family petitioned to get the probe against him closed. His mother and wife have talked to prosecutors and the Interior Ministry.
But the Investigative Department of the Interior Ministry said Thursday they must still contact his other close relatives to make sure they agree. Under Russian law, once a suspect is dead authorities can close a probe with the agreement of the family.
A spokesman for the department who asked to be unnamed, citing the department’s policy, said that they have not contacted all of Magnitsky’s close relatives, and “haven’t got a definite answer” from his mother and wife.
But Magnitsky’s mother, Natalya Magnitskaya, has repeatedly petitioned to get the case closed, and told The Associated Press “there are no other relatives” except for herself, Magnitsky’s widow and their two children.
“They haven’t asked us about anything,” she said of the department’s announcement it was looking for more relatives.
The family’s lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov said the decision was akin to “spitting on the grave of a dead man and his relatives.”
“Magnitsky’s family has repeatedly voiced their position about the illegality of the posthumous prosecution by filing formal written complaints to all Russian state bodies,” Gorokhov said in an emailed statement.
Two prison doctors have been charged with oversight leading to death, but none of the officials Magnitsky accused of framing him have faced charges.
Magnitsky worked for Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund owned and run by U.S.-born William Browder, who has since been barred from Russia as a security risk.
Magnitsky was charged with tax evasion linked to his defense of Hermitage Capital and arrested by the same police officials he had accused of a $230 million tax fraud.
His death sparked outrage in Russia and globally. The U.S. administration imposed travel restrictions on 60 Russian officials suspected of involvement in the lawyer’s imprisonment and killing. Moscow retaliated by drafting a list of American officials it will bar from entering Russia.
Activists presented their report on Magnitsky’s death to Medvedev in July, arguing that police investigators and prison officials are to blame for the lawyer’s death. They later criticized police and investigators for putting the blame squarely on the doctors and shielding their colleagues from responsibility.
The Investigative Committee, a body that oversees high-profile investigations in Russia, is still investigating Magnitsky’s death, the committee’s chief, Alexander Bastrykin, told Russian news agencies on Thursday.
Bastrykin said they are investigating people who could be involved in the lawyer’s death ? not only the doctors who had been charged.
The investigation “will go on until we are 100 percent sure that we have found all the officials and employees of the institutions that are partly or directly to blame for this death,” he said, according to Interfax.
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