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...major athletes have had themselves and their families taped up while their homes were robbed, and two others have died as a result of gun violence. Others have probed Taylor’s life for explanations. While his past was troubled—Taylor had a 2005 armed assault arrest, and a few incidents regarding team functions—by all reports from friends and teammates, he had turned around his life since the birth of his daughter. But no amount of speculation about the possible cause affects the fundamental nature of the tragedy...
Less than two weeks after his arrest, only four out of the five trees were left standing...
...still played basketball, hung out at Dunkin' Donuts and, by all accounts, worked long hours at the roofing company they owned together. Dritan and his wife, Jennifer Marino, an Italian-American convert to Islam, had five children. (Eljvir's wife gave birth to a baby girl shortly after his arrest...
...Sharif tried - and, as expected, failed - to get past a line of some 300 riot policemen in Islamabad on Thursday. In what may be a pre-election publicity stunt, Sharif had been trying to visit the deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who has been held under house arrest since President Pervez Musharraf instituted emergency rule on November 3. While hundreds of supporters chanted his name, police turned Sharif back at the concrete and barbed wire barricades. Undeterred, he addressed the crowd, saying, "I have come here to express solidarity with the Chief Justice and other judges. I want...
...parliamentary elections slated for January 8. Few in Pakistan expect the poll to be either free or fair: Emergency rule will not be lifted until December 16, leaving candidates little more than three weeks of campaigning; several provincial candidates may have to campaign while under house arrest; and Sharif himself has been barred from running for Prime Minister. Rumors abound of electoral rigging, ballot stuffing and vote-buying. Given the fraught campaigning atmosphere, candidates are struggling to get the public's attention. Highly publicized discussions between Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...