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Nouhoum Sissoko, 40, mayor of Marka Coungo and the biggest cotton producer in the district, says the pressure to accept lower prices every year is relentless. "The [Malian] government told us the low prices are because of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Such partners are making pressure on government, and the government is putting pressure on us," he says, sitting in a thatched meeting room next to the mayor's office. Later, on a tour of his 54 acres planted in cotton, he laughs deeply when told of the subsidies and guarantees American cotton farmers enjoy...
DIED. WILLIAM BRYANT, 94, trailblazing D.C. lawyer who became the first black chief judge of a U.S. federal district court; in Washington. One of the first black Assistant U.S. Attorneys, he was appointed to the federal bench by Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Strikingly gracious despite having endured virulent racism early in his career, he was modest, averse to media attention and passionate about the ability of lawyers to achieve justice. If not for lawyers, he once said, "I'd still be three-fifths...
...detainment of two young boys accused of violating the Ames Juvenile Curfew Act. The arguments focused on whether the act infringed the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution. While the details of the case were fictional, the key issues reflected real legislation enacted previously by several states and the District of Columbia. The contending arguments focused on whether the Constitution protected the right to free movement and whether minors could claim such a right. “The Ames Curfew is an undue burden on the right of free movement and therefore violates the Equal Protection clause...
...year-old convicted rapist arrested for trespassing in Mather House last month was sentenced to two years in a local house of corrections after he essentially pled guilty to all charges against him in Middlesex District Court on Thursday. Ronald R. Vick, of Brighton, Mass., was arrested on the third floor of the Mather lowrise on Saturday, Oct. 15, after several Mather residents alerted the police of a suspicious individual wandering around the House. Police charged him with trespassing, breaking and entering in the daytime with the intent to commit theft, and failing to register as a sex offender...
Just over a month after his arrest for allegedly selling sex services at his Harvard Square business, About Hair proprietor Duncan W. Purdy faced a pretrial hearing Thursday in Cambridge District Court, in which the prosecutor asked to move Purdy’s case to Superior Court. Dressed in a green suit with two earrings adorning his left ear, Purdy, 52, stood before Judge George Sprague last week. Purdy was arrested at his Arrow Street hair salon on Oct. 7. About Hair is still in operation, and Purdy was seen tending the cashier’s desk after the hearing...