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...Because it couldn't prove al-Arian was "the most powerful man" in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as one prosecutor characterized him during the trial, or link him directly with any of the brutal killings perpetrated by PIJ, "this [was] a failed prosecution, period," al-Arian attorney Linda Moreno tells TIME. "[Former Attorney General] John Ashcroft announced the indictment three years ago on the steps of the Justice Department. Three years later, we have the Department of Justice recommending that Dr. al-Arian be sentenced to the lowest term possible and agreeing that this is not a crime of violence...
...banking giant UniCredit earlier this year, he was excoriated. President Kaczynski said he would not renew Balcerowicz's appointment. Lepper called for his removal. Last month, the parliament established a commission to probe the bank's role in 17 years of privatization. "It's a sort of harassment, a brutal infringement on the political independence" of the bank, Balcerowicz says. But that isn't all: the government has mounted a legal challenge against the European Commission for approving the UniCredit merger, prompting the Commission to file a counterclaim of its own. "That's a very symbolic gesture...
...different times. There’s the furious start from dead in the water, when boats go from zero to 50 strokes per minute in five flicks of an oar. And there’s often a concerted push at the midway point, as crews prepare to enter the brutal third 500 meters on a high note—and with some distance between opposing boats. Tenths of seconds change races; baseball innings, on the other hand, can last half an hour.Even though the Eastern Sprints and IRA Championships still sit a month away, each weekend plays...
Africa's wars have a terrible habit of spilling across borders. To diplomats in Sudan, it seemed only a matter of time before the brutal three-year-old conflict in the country's Darfur province followed suit, posing particular risk to landlocked, unstable Chad to the west. And indeed, this morning, residents of Chad?s capital, N?Djamena, woke up to find a small group of rebels trying to enter the city and battling government soldiers street by street. The gunfire and shelling began at dawn and, according to a BBC reporter in N?Djamena, lasted two hours before...
...Over the next three weeks, the jury will hear from dozens of relatives, whose raw grief takes us back to that bright, brutal fall day. "It's important to replicate the horrors of 9/11 so the jury can make a fair and informed decision," D. Hamilton Peterson told the Washington Post. His father and stepmother died on that flight, and he was one of the thousands of victims' relatives contacted by prosecutors, who traveled the country to interview them, kept them abreast of the prosecution and acted as de facto grief counselors, according to the Post...