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...they changed their pleas Friday, their lawyers argued the court should follow the procedure outlined in a 1971 Mass. Supreme Judical Court decision, Commonwealth v. Brandano...
Although Brandano allows for a judge to decline to accept a guilty plea, an Aug. 23 decision by the Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth v. Tim T., said a judge could not do so over the objections of the Commonwealth...
...sporting mediocrity would not be terribly interesting were it not for the population’s unshakable belief that it was still a major player in world athletics. Umpteen experts opined that there was a good possibility of Manchester getting the Olympics in 2012 on the back of the Commonwealth Games. Framingham stands a better chance...
...Commonwealth Games should have been a national embarrassment, not a cause for jubilation. That a complacent population believed that they were a roaring success is the biggest embarrassment...
...embassy are a sort of happy hour, where the on-site pub—the Steppe Inne (pun intended, obviously)—opens for its weekly get-together. The local anglophones and anglophiles gather for some shared company. Western diplomats, expatriate businessmen, students, travelers and even a few Commonwealth types put in a showing. The American ambassador was complaining recently about the local labor market and the bureaucracy at the Russian embassy. The British ambassador was putting in his usual two hours a week behind the bar, pulling pints in person. It was the sort of gathering that went...