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...evil army disintegrated. Later in the movie he would be dragged before a chamber of bewigged jurists and, as the credits rolled, sentenced to his just deserts. But the real world is unlikely to offer up the denouement of a handcuffed Milosevic unraveling in a war-crimes courtroom ?- at least not any time soon. Even if Milosevic has been given no secret guarantees regarding his status as an indicted war criminal, the odds are slim that NATO would risk trying to arrest him. "Western countries were reluctant to allow their troops in Bosnia to act as the Hague Tribunal...
...your years, have rarely understood the occurrences and the people in the world that I have pretended to give order to. Yet I write sentences that end in periods. An odd word, sentence, don't you think? It means an authoritative decision, a judgment (one is sentenced in a courtroom), as well as a definite part of the language. Yet anybody who writes one knows that in reality sentences roll on and come to no conclusions; typically, they are questions disguised as answers, even cries for help...
Meanwhile, both of the wrongly accused boys are still reeling from the trauma of the past nine months, from what family members describe as police "interrogation," to the murder charges filed in a hostile courtroom, to their returning home under house arrest--and the mobs of journalists camped outside their homes for weeks. Even today nightmares haunt the boys, according to their friends and relatives, and school days have become a dreaded ritual of taunting, fights and confrontation with youths who tease them about the murder. The younger boy, who once wore his hair in tightly braided corn-rows...
...stunned to read that Motichka sued her surgeon. The surgeon's recommendation was based on his interpretation of the research and information at the time of her diagnosis. But the ultimate decision was hers. This case did not belong in a courtroom. Whom will she sue if (God forbid) she ever has a recurrence of cancer? LISA E. CAPLAN North Miami Beach...
Vincent K. McMahon, the "Chairman of the Board" of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), told a rowdy crowd in Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School (HLS) yesterday that his travails as a wrestling mogul have given him a crash course on the First Amendment...