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...Yard. The government of Greece has also increased the reward for information leading to the dismantling of the 17 November group to $4.25 million. It has established hot lines through which individuals can anonymously pass on information about terrorist activities and has introduced a witness-protection program to help convict terrorists. The Greek government has given the highest priority to fighting terrorism. ALEXANDER PHILON Ambassador of Greece to the U.S. Washington...
...there are Australian traits that do, indisputably, come down to modern Australia from the vanished days of the bush, and even from the convict era. They are wound tightly into our social history. One of these is the value set on "mateship"; another, related to it, is a much paraded dislike of ?litism. Mateship - essentially, male bonding - began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that...
...IDIOTS? Forensic experts found his fingerprint on one of the plastic bags tied around a victim's head, and Yates' genetic profile, from blood drawn after his arrest, matched semen found on the corpses. Says Sheriff Mark Sterk: "There's no doubt in my mind we're going to convict this guy." But at Yates' arraignment, the mother of one of the victims looked in disbelief at the accused killer, a balding father of five in a navy blue suit and wire-rimmed spectacles. "He looks like a little mouse," she said...
Graham was convicted largely on the strength of one eyewitness's testimony. That witness holds fiercely to her story: She saw Graham at the murder scene. Two other eyewitnesses, who emerged after the trial, apparently took a look at a lineup that included Graham and told police, "He's not in there." Many defense lawyers maintain that a single eyewitness's testimony should not be enough to convict on a capital charge: Several lawyers called on to pontificate over Graham's fate brought up the recent case of a rape victim who positively identified her attacker and was absolutely sure...
Martin Lawrence plays an undercover FBI agent who is sent to Georgia to protect a mother and her son from an escaped convict. In order to do this, he must take on the identity (and the heavyset physique) of an old grandmother. For his scenes as Big Momma, Lawrence dons a prosthetic "fat suit" (a l Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor and Mike Myers in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me). The result is a frighteningly realistic, bad-mouthing Southern granny with an attitude. Prior to filming, Lawrence made headlines when he collapsed from a heat stroke...