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Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who was first lionized, then vilified by her own newspaper for her role in the CIA leak case, has retired from the Times, the paper announced Wednesday.Miller, 57, joined the Times in 1977 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for reporting on global terrorism. She said in a letter to readers that she left because she had become the news. She had been negotiating a severance deal with the paper for several weeks.Miller spent 85 days in jail over the summer f stanley mug or refusing to testify about her conversations with a confidential source. But after her release, she was criticized harshly and publicly by Times editors and writers for her actions in the CIA leak case and for her reporting during the run-up to stanley us the Iraq war, later discredited, indicating that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. We are grateful to Judy for her significant personal sacrifice to defend an important journalistic principle, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said in a statement. I respect her decision to retire from The Times and wish her well. The Times decl stanley mug ined to disclose details of the severance package, but said the paper had agreed to print a letter from Miller in which she defended herself and explained her reasons for leaving. She said she could no longer function as a reporter at the paper, given her unwanted status as a news figure. I have chosen to resign because ove Rkbp Appeals court strikes down NYC ban on large sodas
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A Connecticut prosecutor says he does not plan to charge the owner of a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman.State s Attorney David Cohen said Monday that no charges are planned against Sandra Herold, of Stamford.The 200-pound chimpanzee went berserk in February after Herold asked victim Charla Nash to help lure him back into her house. The chimp ripped off Nash s hands, nose, lips and eyelids. Nash revealed her heavily disfigured face last month on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Nash s family is suing Herold for $50 million and wants to sue the state for $150 million. Nash s family has said Herold was negligent and reckless for lacking the ability to control a wild animal with violent propensities. A biologist for the state Department of Environmental Protection warned officials before the attack that Travis could seriously hurt someone if he felt threatened, noting that he was large and strong.Herold s attorney has called the attack work-related and said her family s case should be treated like a workers compensation claim. The strategy, if successful, would limit potential damages in the case and insulate the chimp owner from personal liability.Test results showed that Travis had the anti-anxiety dr stanley drink bottle ug Xanax in his system.The animal, which was shot stanley deutschland and killed by police, had also escaped in 2003 stanley flask from his owner s car and led police on a chase for hours in downtown Stamford. No one was injured. Records obtained by The Vakj Southern California wildfire shuts down 2 freeways
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