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...banana plantations is in no condition to hold an election, says Zelaya, who has been holed up in the Brazilian embassy since sneaking back into the country in September. With the coup's de facto government muzzling the Honduran media, cracking down on protests and locking up dissidents, a fair vote is impossible, Zelaya argues. "This is the first time in history that the executioners are being allowed to oversee a so-called transition back to democracy," he told TIME by telephone from inside the embassy. (Soldiers surrounding the building stop journalists from going in.) The Stetson-wearing leftist said...
...most days, however, the trial involves a fair amount of tedium. As one witness identified SIM cards, the judge, M.L. Tahiliani, read lists of mobile numbers into the record; a security officer from the Taj testified that he found a pistol, a magazine and an empty magazine in the debris of the hotel's Wasabi restaurant. The judge asked how to spell "wasabi" and what it means in Japanese, one of his frequent, meandering asides which he plays for laughs from the small audience of police officers and reporters in the courtroom. The atmosphere is markedly informal. The prosecutor goes...
...Mike Binder) hoists his glass to Pippa and describes her as still an enigma after 25 years of friendship. Sam's sense of Pippa as enigma probably has a lot to do with the fact that she's never been interested in sleeping with him, but he raises a fair point. Pippa and Herb recently moved from New York to a cloistered Connecticut retirement community, and the high point of Pippa's day is monitoring Herb's blood pressure. Most women in their mid-40s would find this existence pretty dreary. There must be something beyond Pippa's cheery...
...want a system that people think is fair and they can participate in,” Pathak said. “The primary goal of the new algorithm, school committee members agree, is to ‘level the playing field...
...Tuesday after a moment of silence to remember those killed in the conflict. "No one is on trial. But I make a commitment here that once we get to our final report, we will not shy away from making criticisms where they are warranted. [We will be] thorough, rigorous, fair and frank...