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...Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island, N.Y., housewife, casually answered her door and unwittingly stepped into one of the most sensational crimes of the decade. Standing on her front porch, Mary Jo was shot in the face by Amy Fisher, her husband Joey's 17-year-old mistress. Fisher, quickly dubbed the "Long Island Lolita" by the New York tabloids, ended up serving nearly seven years in prison for reckless assault. Joey, a 36-year-old auto-bodyshop owner, went to jail for four months for statutory rape...
...individuals were actually Gates, who was returning home from a trip to China, and his car driver, who helped Gates carry his luggage and force his way through the jammed front door...
...with the Boston Globe this past weekend that her client was "personally devastated" by media reports suggesting that she was prompted to call police because the men were black. Police reports of the incident state that Whalen saw "what appeared to be two black males with backpacks on the front porch" trying to break into the home, but Police Commissioner Robert C. Haas told the Globe that the report was a summary based on information and inquiries not necessarily compiled from the initial 911 call...
...features quickie "blitz" street demonstrations, lasting just long enough to chant "Death to the dictator!" several times but short enough to evade security forces. It involves identifying paramilitary Basij vigilantes linked to the crackdown and putting marks in green - the opposition color - or pictures of protest victims in front of their homes. It is scribbled antiregime slogans on money. And it is defiant drivers honking horns, flashing headlights and waving V signs at security forces. (See pictures of Iran's presidential election and its turbulent aftermath...
...ethnic Kurdish minority. After Saddam's downfall, the two parties put aside their differences - the KDP is a tribal-style organization dominated by the Barzani family, and the PUK is a socialist-like group run by a party cadre led by Jalal Talabani - to present a united Kurdish front in negotiations with Arab Iraqis and the U.S. over the future of the Iraqi state. As part of the deal, the KDP agreed to push for the nomination of Talabani to be the first President of Iraq, while KDP leader Massoud Barzani became the President of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government...