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According to Rose, though, there was still a lingering distaste about being captain in absentia. Spring ball was the first real action for many current sophomores who are now key contributors...
...Sept. 11 attacks, which killed five French citizens. SOS Attentats is also party to a suit filed last month in a Washington, D.C. federal court against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for his role in a 1989 French airline bombing, for which six Libyans have already been convicted - in absentia - by a French court. Because French law doesn't allow sitting foreign leaders to be cited in criminal cases, Rudetzki has relied on families of U.S. victims to file suit. But such cases, she notes, cost more than limited state funding and rare private donations allow. "Everyone feels supportive of victims...
...duke was the country's senior nobleman. His duties included organizing the annual state opening of Parliament by the Queen. DIED. PIERRE WERNER, 88, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg who in 1970 conceived the idea for a single European currency; in Luxembourg. SENTENCED. OLEG KALUGIN, 67, in absentia, to 15 years in a maximum security prison for passing state secrets to the U.S.; in Moscow. Kalugin was found guilty of undermining national security for disclosing state secrets in his 1994 book First Directorate, which he co-wrote with a U.S. journalist. Kalugin, who lives in Washington...
Palmer, who teaching this semester in Sweden, accepted in absentia the award for best teaching by a junior faculty member. He joked in an e-mail sent to Chopra that he looked forward to receiving the million dollar stipend that he hoped came with the award...
Engel was convicted in absentia in November 1999 by an Italian military court on 246 counts of murder. He was accused of three massacres of civilians, including 18 people he shot personally, according to eyewitness testimony. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Italian court, but Germany doesn't allow for its citizens to be extradited abroad. Meanwhile, Engel has insisted he is innocent of any crime. Speaking of the 59 people who were taken from Genoa's Marassi prison and shot in groups of six outside town, he said, "I want to stress that these 59 were martyrs...