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...representing a victim in the attacks, who is also expected to appear as a witness for the prosecution. When the proceedings resumed, the judge announced that he had appointed Abbas Kazmi as Qasab's new lawyer. "I am willing," Kazmi said. Tahiliani named another lawyer, A.A. Walwalkar, as a back-up for the other two defendants in case Naqvi does not show up. (See pictures retracing Qasab's steps from Pakistan to Mumbai...
...Oldham croons, echoed by a bevy of perky female vocalists singing, “Is that scary?” By the end of the song, Oldham’s voice strains as he attempts to raise it over a rising cacophony of accordions, guitars, and additional back-up vocals, now chiming in with a shrill, “Beware...
...circumstances surrounding the gun attack remain unclear. The murdered man was part of a back-up team responding to what police have described as a "call for help from a vulnerable person." He was shot as he got out of a police vehicle...
...bills into his pocket as if to say, “Gee, this economy isn’t conducive to the gangsta lifestyle anymore.” And he has to be making fun of the rap genre in those scenes where he is dancing with a set of back-up dancers wearing matching hideous sequined tracksuits. It’s alright though if he doesn’t care for rap culture all that much. He seems to have more fun hanging out with movie stars anyway. —Crystal Huang
...need more traditional enforcement," says Dunbar. "With big funds and banks, the government, in effect, becomes the back-up insurance if they go bad. Firms that grow too big to fail must pay for this insurance; this might achieve a kind of new self regulation." (See the top 10 financial collapses...