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...sentence marks the final legal chapter in one of the most notorious crimes committed by U.S. service members during the Iraq war. The case is a flash point in Iraq, where many locals quoted in news reports have said death would be the only acceptable sentence. To represent her country's point, the Iraqi Minister of Human Rights attended the first day of the trial. Darren Wolff, a Louisville, Ky., lawyer in private practice who helped defend Green, said international opinions should not be relevant to the pursuit of justice. In a written statement after the sentence became known, Wolff...
...government is going to be asked to do much more than set up guidelines for what credit agencies can share about people's spending and payment habits. It is not clear that it is legal or moral to fire someone because the odds are high that the person might quit. But, if a company can determine accurately that there is a 99% chance that someone will leave, why shouldn't it be able to fire the person and begin the process of finding a replacement? There is no reason that the employer should be burdened by waiting...
...popular strains of marijuana, according to an editor from the marijuana publication High Times magazine. The callback number on both messages matches a cell phone number registered to a Denise Cosby of Cambridge, Mass., according to Accurint, a subscription database owned by LexisNexis and used by law enforcement and legal agencies to trace personal information. Phone calls made to that number today went straight to a voice message that sounded like it was recorded by a young man but which contained no identification information...
...candidates appears to be applied exclusively as "religious and political men" - even though it can also be read as "religious and political personalities." Says Jamileh Kadivar, a former member of parliament who heads women's affairs for the campaign of presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi: "We are dealing with both legal and institutional discrimination." Among the women who registered this time, the most prominent was the conservative politician Rafat Bayat. She was disqualified in 2005 but insisted on standing again, because, she explained, "I am a political personality...
...standards that are tougher than the rest of the nation's rules - provided the EPA gives it a waiver. In the past, such waivers had been all but automatic - but when California tried to pass stricter emissions standards for vehicles, the Bush EPA balked, setting up a string of legal battles. California pressed its right to green its millions of cars and trucks; U.S. automakers claimed that if California could go its own way, the result would be a patchwork of different fuel-efficiency standards around the nation, making business all but impossible. (See the top 10 green stories...