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...that, claiming the only firing after the explosion was done by the Marines. Suspecting that the four students in the taxi either triggered the bomb or were acting as spotters, the Marines ordered the men and the driver, who by then had exited the taxi, to lie on the ground. Instead, they ran, and the Marines shot and killed them...
...officer who was at the scene. Fasil Mekonnen, a University Operations Services employee, said that he had just informed the man of a 20-minute parking limit and was walking away when he heard the screams. “I turned around to see him falling to the ground,” he said. “He bounced back, hit the shuttle, and bounced to the ground. There was a whole lot of screaming, and I saw him bleeding.” Mekonnen said that bystanders hurried over immediately. Within minutes, he said, an ambulance had arrived to rush...
...Skilling vow to appeal, and there is precedent - all the way to the Supreme Court - to attack a white-collar fraud conviction based on the fine points of the kind of jury instructions given by Judge Simeon Lake. "A 'willful blindness' instruction is a very good ground [for appeal]," says Houston defense attorney Joel Androphy. Willful blindness, which Judge Lake specifically cited in the jury instructions as a valid factor in finding guilt, means a jury can find a corporate executive guilty if he personally did not cook the books, but was suspicious or knowledgeable of the goings...
...Harvard seniors, I daresay that many of us are finding ourselves in a similar situation. For 17 or so years, we’ve been chasing our diplomas. But in the chase’s final stage, we’ve rocketed off the edge. With the reassuring hard ground of problem sets, papers, and midterms receding into the distance, it’s only a matter of time before we all take a look around and realize that we, too, have lost our firm footing...
...turned around to see him falling to the ground,” he said. “He bounced back, hit the shuttle, and bounced to the ground. There was a whole lot of screaming, and I saw him bleeding...