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Amdan Senne didn't know any of the dead, but last Thursday the 23-year-old civil servant from the district of Tak Bai in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province volunteered to act as a coffin-bearer at a funeral for 22 men. They were among 85 killed when what started as a peaceful protest outside the local police station went horribly wrong. Now, three days later, as rifle-toting soldiers stood watch, the shrouded bodies were first laid out under the hot sun on a field next to the 380-year-old ironwood Wadi al-Hussein mosque. Prayers were...
...that both President Bush and Senator Kerry had announced that they, as healthy, civic-minded Americans, would forgo the shots. Only after some Republicans and Democrats protested did Congress decide to vaccinate just those at high risk and donate 3,000 leftover shots to local health services in the District of Columbia...
...think [District Attorney Martha] Coakley will run for Senate and I think she needs the Hispanic vote, and I feel like this was politically motivated,” she said. “I thought we needed to do something...
...court recorder could complete transcript within a month or two, according to Middlesex District Attorney spokeswoman Emily J. LaGrassa...
Defense lawyers argued that Pring-Wilson acted in self-defense after being attacked by Colono, while the prosecution, led by Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch, claimed that Pring-Wilson was the aggressor in the fight and deserved a first-degree murder conviction...