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...Benghazi. Despite international appeals for the medics' release, they were sentenced to death by firing squad in 2004. Appeals ended this week with the upholding of the sentence, an apparent technicality. The case now moves to the country's top legal body, which will have the option to annul the charges or, more likely, some observers say, to commute the sentence, which would allow the nurses (and one Palestinian doctor who is accused with them) to go free, though it is not yet clear when. In a important step that will help the Libyan judicial system save face if charges...
...house of Tudor stretched from 1485, with the coronation of King Henry VII, to 1603, the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's daughter with Anne Boleyn. It was an era of religious turmoil, fomented by coquettish Lady Anne Boleyn lobbying for her King to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine. As Henry teetered between Catherine's Catholicism and Anne's Protestantism, the faith of a nation depended on a monarch's lust. "Our biggest enemy is terrorism," says Charles Beem, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. "Theirs was the Reformation...
...sadism, the burying alive, with bulldozers, of Palestinians) undermine the moral edifice of the Chosen. And efforts to keep such deeds from the sight of the world, to confiscate film, to bar journalists from the territories, as if the trouble were merely a hallucination and intercepting the message would annul the problem -- all these seem to smack of manipulation. In the first weeks of the Palestinian uprising, many of America's Jews raised their voices against Israel...
...campaign to annul the vote is not a mass movement, but a loose network of grassroots campaigns that began on the Internet and spread like a virus through the wired middle classes. The popular Orkut dating site has dozens of pages devoted to urging annulment; Brazilian MTV ran a spot that was criticized as encouraging youngsters to spoil their ballots; and rock stars have amplified the sedition with passionate pleas from the stage. The idea took hold so quickly that the federal electoral court rushed to counter it with radio and TV ads appealing to voters to make their decision...
...they will vote for their erstwhile great hope with a heavy heart. "There are no messiahs any more," says former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. "People don't believe there is anyone who can change the system and so they think it's not worth voting. The campaign to annul the vote is one of desperation...