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...over well with the Fourth Circuit, which blocked the transfer until the feds could explain what looked like an improper attempt to manipulate the case. No matter. In April 2006 the Supreme Court refused to hear Padilla's appeal and allowed the criminal charges to proceed before U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke...
...Choi belongs to SK Telecom T1, a video-game team whose 20 members practice and live together in two shared luxurious apartments in a skyscraper in Seoul's financial district. For some 350 days a year, the young men wake at 10 a.m, jog for an hour, and then hit their computers or PCs, taking an hour off for lunch and another for dinner, and finally calling it a day at 3 a.m. (The gamers claim they play at their best just after midnight.) They don't spend much time outside their building, and when they do leave...
Harvard College Library employee David S. Toomey was arrested at the Alewife T Station yesterday morning after allegedly implying that he had a bomb in his backpack, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) official said last night. He will be arraigned in Cambridge District Court this morning on charges of disorderly conduct and making terrorist threats. MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said that both commuters and MBTA employees overheard Toomey making verbal threats about the contents of his backpack. Bomb technicians were brought in to examine the backpack. They found no explosives, Pesaturo added. Rail service was suspended between...
...case against four Harvard undergraduates who were arrested last month after disrupting a speech by the director of the FBI. The quick decision brought to a close a two-week saga that prompted debate across the University about free speech on campus. At the pre-trial hearing at Cambridge District Court yesterday morning, Justice Roanne Sragow said that Harvard had requested that the charges be dropped and said that it would handle the matter internally. She then dismissed the case. The University released a statement on May 1 requesting that the charges be dropped, five days after the students were...
...mails home, and the way he talks about the tribal elders he has befriended. He's looking forward to the day that he can see a resident of Naray use a mobile phone, turn on a light or drive a paved road to the next district - all projects he and his colleagues initiated during their time here. But those achievements will not be the measure of his success. "We've done a lot of great things, and I want to continue that," he says. "But for me personally, my success is bringing all my boys back home...