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When Newman met her new client for the first time in a sunny, wood-paneled courtroom on the 21st floor of a federal building in downtown Manhattan, she did not agonize over the moral calculus of defending a suspected terrorist. She did what Americans everywhere have done since Sept. 11: her job. She disputed the government's right to hold her client. After the hearing, Padilla was incarcerated in the nearby Metropolitan Correctional Center--less than a mile from ground zero--where he spent 23 hours a day in lockdown. When he did leave his cell, he wore...
...thought that this would end up as a happy thing," she says. But eight days after she gave birth, police arrested Lawal, 30, for adultery, a capital crime under the Islamic law, or shari'a, in effect in her home state of Katsina in northern Nigeria. A courtroom crowd cried, "Allahu akbar (God is great)!" as a shari'a court last week rejected an appeal of her sentence. As soon as she weans nine-month-old Wasila, Lawal is scheduled to be buried in the ground up to her chest and stoned to death...
...protested the decision outside a government building in Changde, where they raised banners reading, "Admit the Crime and Compensate!" Meanwhile, a subtle, long-awaited change seems finally to be under way in Japan. After decades of denial, ordinary Japanese are displaying a creeping contrition that is reflected in the courtroom, if not yet by the government. In April, a district court in Fukuoka ordered the Mitsui Mining Co., a subsidiary of one of Japan's biggest conglomerates, to pay $1.4 million apiece to 15 Chinese forced to work in the company's mines during the war. (Japan transported an estimated...
Time served in an Israeli prison is no liability for an aspirant Palestinian leader. That may be why Marwan Barghouti was positively loquacious during his first appearance in a Tel Aviv courtroom on Tuesday on charges of terrorism and murder...
...Civilization As We Know It." Au contraire, Jillian! The overweening drive for instant fame, near instant sex and a little money on the side is civilization as we know it--and it's thriving. Dating series have become to the 21st century what sleazy talk and courtroom shows were to the late '90s: a ubiquitous TV staple that offers a sneak peek at the national id--and the occasional blurred-out bare chest. Following Blind Date, the granddaddy--or sleazy uncle--of the genre, syndicated TV is filled with the likes of Change of Heart, Elimidate, The 5th Wheel, Rendez...