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Overall, "the government and the court will have to bend over backwards" to help Moussaoui out of fear of violating his rights and being overturned on appeal, said a government lawyer. "It becomes very bizarre," he said, "but you don't want to execute people who don't get a fair shot." Washington defense lawyer Richard Sauber was more blunt, saying, "It's a nightmare for prosecutors...
...Htut has likewise sterilized more controversial parts of his work?thus avoiding the fate of Par Par Lay, a well-known comedian who in 1996 received a seven-year prison sentence for satirizing the country's ruling generals. Not everyone is willing to bend. Mun Awng, a popular musician in Burma in the 1980s, left the country in 1988 after participating in a wave of antigovernment demonstrations. From Thailand, he released an album titled Battle for Peace, and activists sang his songs while facing down the military in 1996 street protests. He now lives in Norway, performing occasionally for Burmese...
Junior defender Joe Nejman and Rimlawi, both transfers from South Bend, provide the Crimson added motivation heading into that game...
...many broken promises, it's not at all clear that the war would end with the recognition of such a state--and it has never been clear that the U.S. could get the parties to agree to the terms for creating one. Washington has never had the power to bend either adversary to its will, and now its influence is at low ebb. After months of mixed messages and policy shifts, Bush dispatched his Secretary of State to restrain Sharon and Arafat, only to watch both sides continue the slaughter. Despite three public calls by Bush for Israel to withdraw...
...ways in which writers Chap Taylor and Michael Tolkin escalate the conflict often bend plausibility, and director Roger Michell sometimes kicks the melodrama into fantasyland. But at heart this parable, well acted by a veteran cast, is one of those serious "gerund movies" (Pushing Tin, Falling Down) about the scars we leave on the folks we dash past in our rush to do our job. Their world disintegrates, and all we notice, for a second, is the puff of smoke behind...