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...Rajapaksa in a Jan. 26 election, the country's first since the end of a 26-year civil war last May. Former allies, the two quickly became foes, with Fonseka alleging election fraud and claiming that his life was threatened following Rajapaksa's victory. Fonseka is set to be court-martialed at a later date...
Prisoners leave saddened parents, abandoned mates, fatherless children. Of course, in many cases, those families are better off with their violent relatives behind bars. But a court system that clobbers first-time offenders with mandatory sentences - sometimes for nonviolent crimes - will inevitably lock up thousands of not-so-bad guys alongside the hardened criminals. Not everyone agrees on the definition of a nonviolent criminal, but studies have estimated that as many as one-third of all U.S. prison inmates are in that category, most of them locked up on drug charges. (See the top 10 crime duos...
Curry raced the ball up court, slicing into the lane before passing it out to freshman guard Dee Giger in the left corner. Giger gathered himself and knocked down a trey as time expired to give Harvard a 45-26 lead...
...point, the Crimson’s biggest player on the court was the 6’6”, 180-pound Giger...
What she didn’t know, apparently, was where Emma Markley was on the court...