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...second trial was scheduled to begin last spring. This time, Bowen refused to comply with the court-ordered language ban, which had been expanded to include the terms "sexual assault kit" and "sexual assault nurse." On Bowen's behalf, protesters demonstrated outside the Lincoln courthouse, and a petition, which Bowen signed, circulated on the Internet to change Nebraska law. Because of the publicity surrounding the case, Judge Cheuvront declared a mistrial during jury selection, accusing Bowen of inciting public furor over her case. "Ms. Bowen and her friends hoped to intimidate this court and interfere with the selection...
...sentences in the case to life in prison. Since then, efforts to secure their release have advanced so quickly that Sarkozy has accepted an invitation by Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi to visit the country - probably as an additional stop, on Wednesday, to an Africa trip Sarkozy had set to begin upon Thursday. But Elysée officials have since confided it would be unseemly for Sarkozy to meet Ghaddafi before the six Bulgarian nations were freed, raising expectations that Madame Sarkozy and the French presidential jet still present in Libya were set to fly the medics...
Despite the name of the club he leads, Lawaetz will be no more experienced than anyone else when the gun goes off marking the beginning of tomorrow’s mile-long race, scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. in the basin of the river...
After looking at U.S. census data to find areas where Latino populations tended to congregate, they used a “random national probability sample” to begin screening people, eventually finding just over 2,500 subjects for the study out of approximately 20,000 initial candidates...
...become, workers laid out cots and pillows in a marble cloakroom on Capitol Hill as the Senate prepared for an all-night debate on another in a line of doomed-to-fail resolutions. Sponsored by Democratic Senators Carl Levin and Jack Reed, the measure called on the Administration to begin withdrawing the bulk of U.S. troops within 120 days and leave an unstated number behind to go after terrorists and protect the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Many Republicans might support such a plan in private if they did not feel that the Democrats were keeping them up all night...