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...fell to loosely associated, legalized gangs headed by popular warlords. Trained in the Yugoslav army as a sniper, Neven joins a paramilitary unit made up of "distinguished sportsmen, all-in-all criminals, or a little bit of both," and commanded by Ismet Bajramovic, AKA Celo, a violent, handsome ex-convict with intense charisma...
...Initially it seemed state prosecutors would convict few Hindus for their part in the riots. But last month India's Supreme Court ordered a retrial. And last week's events signaled an apparent further widening of the gap between the Indian establishment and the VHP, when months of rancor over the BJP's delay in building a temple to the Hindu god Ram at Ayodhya spilled over into the streets...
...convict someone involved in identifying Joseph Wilson's wife, prosecutors would need to prove that the leaker knew she was a covert agent, not just an employee of the CIA. Because of this standard, the law makes it difficult to nail an aide who heard at the water cooler that Wilson's wife was a CIA employee and told that to a reporter. In that case, a defense lawyer might successfully argue that the leaker's motive was not to blow her cover but rather to imply nepotism in Joseph Wilson's assignment to Niger...
...case or where the files were stashed. Then Shrestha stepped forward. He briefed his successors on his long-forgotten investigation, dug up the 28-year-old files and sat in on Sobhraj's interrogation. The police are now preparing a case they hope will, for the first time, convict Sobhraj of murder. Superintendent Kuber Singh Rana hails Shrestha's "compelling" investigation, saying, "The police have almost nothing to do today. The files establish who the culprit is." Shrestha says merely that it was his duty "to do everything I could not to leave this crime unsolved...
...story parallels that of Oliver Twist in his being orphaned at a young age, trapped in a rigidly stratified society and at the mercy of its caprices. Crime, "the trade of the streets," becomes his only option and he soon finds himself shipped off to the colonies as a convict. Years later he returns to London and organizes a group of street urchins into a petty crime gang which Oliver joins. By the end, after Fagin is sent to the gallows, the reader becomes aware of a connection between him and Oliver Twist that goes further than mere association...