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...Powell may not be able to, even if the issue never explicitly resurfaces. "The verdict is bound to prove psychologically troublesome to Colin Powell," says Phillips, "because it introduces in middle-class and upper-middle-class white minds a question of a type of affirmative action and preference they hadn't thought about before. It's going to be very difficult for Powell to discuss this in a way that doesn't offend blacks or whites...
...course at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama when a friend recommended her to the casting director working on Marco Bellocchio's film, La Balia. At the time, she didn't have the money to go to Rome for the audition. But a month later, Bellocchio still hadn't found his heroine and Sansa, whose grandmother had sent her money to come home for Easter, was determined to seize the opportunity. After six auditions, she got the part. "She was just a girl when I chose her for La Balia," says Bellocchio, "with a delicacy, a modest beauty...
...convention on terrorism stipulates that paramilitary activity in war zones does not violate international law as long as it does not target civilians. Because there was no evidence that the men recruited by the two Moroccan and three Tunisian defendants planned to attack civilians, Forleo ruled that their actions hadn't "exceeded guerrilla activity" - even though she conceded that the men had signed up militants to go to Iraq. They were convicted of immigration offenses. The terror judgment sparked "rage and disbelief" from Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, who termed the verdict "a shameless distortion of reality before the eyes...
...spending eight months in jail for participating in a labor protest that turned violent. "I wasn't thinking of breaking things or blowing things up," says Chen of the April rampage, during which about a thousand workers sabotaged machinery, trashed company offices and overturned a car. "But the boss hadn't paid us our money. It was impulsive, but there was nothing else we could...
...principles. Habib's case, says Law Council of Australia president Stephen Southwood, QC, "shows the danger of depriving people of the ordinary protections of the criminal law. It's horrendous to think that he was detained for so long when it must have been apparent relatively early that he hadn't committed an unlawful...