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...after serving six months in jail for his drug conviction to win re-election as mayor in 1994. After his victory last week, he crowed, "I'm back." UPHELD. The conviction of ANWAR IBRAHIM, 57, ex-Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; on charges of corruption; in Putrajaya. He was freed from prison three weeks ago after a reversal of his sodomy conviction, and has since vowed to push for democratic reform. But his failure to overturn the corruption conviction means he is barred from political office until 2008. ARRESTED. MACAULAY CULKIN, 24, actor and former child star famed...
...FREED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, 57, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; after six years in prison; when the nation's top court overturned a 1998 conviction for sodomy that led to his removal from office and triggered a major political crisis; in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Once considered the heir apparent to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who retired last year, Anwar maintained that he was being persecuted for having crossed his former boss. When Mahathir fired him in 1998, Anwar led thousands in protests demanding democratic reform...
...FREED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, 57, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; after six years in prison; when the nation's top court overturned a 1998 sodomy conviction that led to his removal from office and a major political crisis; in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Once considered the heir apparent to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who retired last year, Anwar maintained that he was being persecuted for having crossed his former boss. When Mahathir fired him in 1998, Anwar had led tens of thousands in demanding democratic reform, in the largest demonstrations Malaysia had seen in decades. DISMISSED. Sexual-assault charges against KOBE BRYANT...
...killings were a gruesome reminder that the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq is supported by a very vulnerable secondary army of tens of thousands of migrant cooks, cleaners and drivers from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. (The same week, kidnappers freed three Indian truck drivers, three Kenyans and an Egyptian but killed three Turks.) The executions produced concerns of a different kind for Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who was accused of not doing enough to free the hostages. The deaths capped a rough fortnight in which the Maoists tried to cripple Kathmandu by forcing 12 corporations...
...northern French resort of Le Touquet. There in May 1940 he was seized by the German army. For 13 months he was held in a succession of camps, where fellow inmates report that he helped keep morale high and shared his worldly goods with them. Shortly before being freed, he agreed to give five radio talks for his fans in the U.S., which had not yet entered the war (an event the Germans hoped his reassuring words could forestall). Not realizing how desperate Britain's plight had become since his capture, he produced a breezy account of camp life. "There...