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Prosecutors appeared before the state’s highest court yesterday to appeal a judge’s decision to retry a former Harvard Russian and Slavic Studies grad student, sentenced in 2004 to six to eight years for voluntary manslaughter...
...just as aggressive and flamboyant as the fast men. In the years after Warne hit the big time, kids in backyards across the cricketing world stopped trying to fling the ball as fast as they could and began learning the subtler art of spin-bowling. His skill - and his appeal - was not just in bowling his opponents out, but in cajoling them, getting under their skins, berating them and ultimately outsmarting them. Sometimes a microphone on the ground would pick up Warne telling a young opponent what he thought of their technique. "You have no idea, mate," was a common...
...Carter's religious appeal inspired Zeoli to propose a counterattack. "I said, ?Jerry, look, Carter's a fine guy, a fine Christian. But nobody knows you're a Christian. Let's put a book together about your faith, and about how God has used...
...time you read this, Saddam Hussein may be dead. When Iraq's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Saddam's appeal of his death sentence, the tyrant's luck finally ran out. That there would be no reprieve was apparently evident to Saddam himself, who penned a farewell letter to his former subjects in which he seemed to welcome a martyr's death - while adding that if he somehow managed to escape the noose, that would be OK too. "If [God's] decision is postponed, then He is most merciful," the letter said. In all likelihood, the world will never...
...After Saddam's appeal failed, remnants of his Ba'ath Party threatened dire reprisals if the government carried out the death sentence. But such threats had been made throughout the trial, and they have amounted to nothing substantial. Most of the violence in Iraq is now perpetrated by people with no love for the dictator. Even if the Ba'athists were to step up their attacks, there's a good chance they would be lost in the general carnage wrought by Jihadi groups and Shi'ite militias...