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...President's closest allies, and dissidents were locked and beaten up, often on the most spurious grounds. Nasheed - who eventually fled to exile in 2003 with other members of his Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) - was, in separate instances, accused of being a terrorist and then a Christian missionary, bent on converting the country's Muslim population...
...line of 11 Harvard and Cambridge police officers spaced themselves out across the grassy Malkin Athletic Center quad, walking toward Kirkland from the Lowell House side with heads bent as if looking for something...
...Sessions' colleagues, for the most part, say he is a changed man. Senator Arlen Specter, whose defection to the Democratic Party opened the door for Sessions to move up, bent over backward on Tuesday to compliment the Alabaman, even though Specter was on the committee in 1986 and voted against Sessions at the time. "My vote against candidate Sessions for the federal court was a mistake," Specter told reporters on Capitol Hill, "because I have since found that Senator Sessions is egalitarian." Echoed Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican and another long-term member of the committee, "The reason...
...Nine,” Samuel Byck in “Assassins,” and April in “Company.” She has worked behind the scenes in several shows including “Alice and Wonderland” and “Bent,” but performing is both her passion and her priority. “I’m kind of vain that way,” she quips. “No, I just love the experience of being on stage. It forces you to be in the moment...
...narcotics after a raid on the housing projects where she lived. She was given two options: a plea bargain, which would release her as a convicted felon in exchange for pleading guilty, or 15-25 years in prison. In the face of a tyrannical district attorney with a racist bent, and a push to convict in order to receive state funds, the principle of “innocent until proven guilty” quickly fell by the wayside.“It was just so emotional—the story of this young woman assaulted by the criminal justice system...