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...Last year’s UC presidential election required four rounds of eliminating candidates and redistributing votes—the maximum possible with the number of tickets there were—before Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 were elected...
Powers also faces the possibility of a maximum sentence of up to three years in state prison, up to two years in a house of correction, a one-year driving license suspension, and a $1,500 fine, Venezia said...
...outside Khartoum's presidential palace, later marching to the British Embassy and burning newspapers bearing images of 54-year-old Gillian Gibbons. The crowd demanded that the teacher be executed following her conviction on charges of blasphemy. Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in prison; she had faced a maximum of 40 lashes or a year in prison under Sudan's legal code, which is based on British law but modified to include sharia punishments. Chanting, "Shame, shame on the U.K.," the demonstrators quickly turned on a handful of British reporters, who were forced to flee...
...Maximum number of days after discovery that a white truffle should be eaten; the Pisa truffle will be auctioned on Dec. 1 in Macau, eight days after it was found...
...accused of committing the Nov. 17 murders, Daniel Tavares Jr., was released in July by Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman, whom Romney appointed in 2006, when he was still governor of that state. Tavares had just finished serving a 16-year sentence in a maximum security prison for stabbing his mother to death, and local prosecutors had urged that he be kept locked up because he had allegedly assaulted two prison guards near the end of his term. Judge Tuttman instead ordered that Tavares be released on his own recognizance, and shortly thereafter Tavares apparently moved across the country...