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...Mehndi. "Daler Mehndi and his brother look alike," says Punjab police Director-General A.A. Siddiqui. "That's where the confusion arose." Siddiqui rejects any suggestion of a police attempt to blackmail Mehndi. Meanwhile, the case continues against Mehndi's brother Shamsher. "The whole case is concocted," says Shamsher's lawyer, Rajvinder Singh Bains. "But the police are going ahead with it as a face-saving exercise...
...DIED. MUNIR, 38, Indonesian human-rights campaigner; of a reported heart attack during a flight to Amsterdam. Munir was a vocal critic of the Indonesian military and a key member of a commission that investigated the 1999 violence in East Timor. As a lawyer and founder of Kontras, one of the country's leading pro-democracy and human-rights organizations, Munir investigated claims of abuse at the hands of the military and the former Suharto regime...
...nation's first M.B.A. President, Bush took to the White House a businessman's case-study training rather than a lawyer's conceptual toolbox. But if a concept will solve a problem, he can embrace it with a convert's passion. Once he was convinced that phonics worked, he put the reading theory at the center of his Texas education plan. A similar thing happened on the way to war. In that case the concept was the neoconservatives' largely academic belief in the transforming power of freedom in the Middle East. The neocons' vision to remake the world...
...hour, they said, "Patrick Bucklew, did you steal the scroll?" I said, "No." And they asked again and again. Finally, I cracked. I just wanted to go home. They locked me up, and I called my dad, who hung up on me. Then he got me a very good lawyer. I spent three days in jail. After I was released, I didn't have the 50¢ it cost to take a bus to my lawyer, so I had to bum money from someone who asked what it was for. I told him I was an artist and needed help...
...that the Swift Boat controversy reached a rabid apogee--that would be the day a Bush campaign lawyer resigned because of his ties to the Swifties, and Max Cleland made the stagy delivery of a protest letter to the Bush ranch--a woman named Elba Nieves stood at a town meeting in Philadelphia and told John Kerry that she had recently been laid off. The candidate proceeded to ask her a series of questions. She answered with quiet dignity. She had worked in a ribbon factory for four years. She said the company was having trouble keeping up with foreign...