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...once said that being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict...
THIS JUNE MARKS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE O.J. SIMPSON CASE. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE CASE MEANS A DECADE LATER? Here's one celebrity who went on trial with adequate counsel against a prosecution that spent about $10 million to convict him. It points out that if a defendant has adequate resources, he can fight a battle on the presumption of innocence...
...terrorism, but many European countries are marching smartly in that direction. "It's just a matter of degree," says Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package for Britain, including lowering the standard of evidence needed to convict accused terrorists from "beyond reasonable doubt" to "the balance of probabilities"; keeping evidence secret from defendants; requiring defense counsel, and even judges, to be picked from a panel with security clearances; and eliminating juries. Civil-liberties advocates are horrified. "It's very disturbing," says Barry Hugill, spokesman for the advocacy...
...deport foreign militants following arrests for relatively minor offenses. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is thinking about extending the same approach to newly naturalized suspects, based on a year-long requirement of "crime-free" conduct after becoming French. Suspected Beghal operative Kamel Daoudi, originally Algerian, is a candidate: if convicted, he could serve his sentence, be stripped of his French citizenship and deported back to Algeria - which has been known to torture jihadists. In Italy, following tougher laws passed in 2001, the number of Islamic terrorists arrested has climbed from 33 in 2001 to 64 in 2002 and 71 last year...
Australian novelist Peter Carey frequently finds inspiration in his country's rich social history. In True History of the Kelly Gang, he chronicled the exploits of the bushranger Ned Kelly. In Jack Maggs, he penned a brilliant fantasia about an Aussie convict crossing paths with Charles Dickens. Carey's new novel, My Life as a Fake, is an absorbing, mind-bending tale incorporating another odd corner of Australian history: one of the nation's most bizarre literary scandals, the Ern Malley hoax...