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...southern state of Karnataka; from a bullet through the heart after being kidnapped in August by India's most wanted criminal, the elusive forest-dwelling bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan; in the Chengdi forests, India. Veerappan claims Nagappa was killed during a shootout with the police, but the authorities dismiss that as unlikely, saying he was shot at close range...
...someone was arrested, she'd come down on the authorities like a ton of bricks." She will need that toughness now. She's noncommittal when asked what policies she will pursue and insists that she will be a mere caretaker President, with her focus still on parliament. Her opponents dismiss her as a political lightweight - Kostunica has said that having Micic as President would be "a joke." "Not a very appropriate thing to say," she comments with a wry smile. "But I'm not a vindictive person...
...will now be up to a vote of the full Faculty to dismiss Randy J. Gomes and Suzanne M. Pomey, originally members of the Class of 2002, who were sentenced in October to five and two years of probation, respectively...
...last time a student was dismissed from the College was in 1999, when the full Faculty voted dismiss D. Drew Douglas and Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, who were charged in separate incidents of rape...
That attitude is posing an especially tricky problem for the Bush Administration. Saudi officials are trying to get the U.S. government to intervene and dismiss or delay the case on national-security grounds. And senior figures in the State Department, sources tell TIME, are arguing that the litigation should be done away with before it impedes Saudi cooperation in a possible war against Iraq. But that view is not shared by everyone. Some Justice and Treasury Department officials see the lawsuit as a useful tool to pressure the Saudis into defunding al-Qaeda." The Saudis have offered piecemeal cooperation that...