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When prosecutors charged the French Moroccan Zacarias Moussaoui 17 months ago with conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks, they didn't count on the case's becoming a Pandora's box of legal nightmares. First he fired his lawyers and peppered his court appearances with denunciations of the U.S. Then the judge ruled that Moussaoui had the right to question Ramzi Binalshibh, an al-Qaeda member now in U.S. custody who says he was central to the execution of the attacks and that, some reports say, Moussaoui was not involved. Federal prosecutors last week--arguing that the threat to national...
...Attorney General ordered the local federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty even though they wanted to ask for lesser sentences. Since taking office, Ashcroft has reversed prosecutors' sentencing recommendations and sought capital punishment in cases involving 16 defendants. Now it appears his hard-line stance has opened a Pandora's box of legal ammunition for death-penalty foes. Recently Ashcroft told prosecutors in upstate New York to ask for the death penalty in the case of three men charged with murder, drug conspiracy and weapons possession in the killing of an alleged rival drug dealer; the prosecutors had planned...
...foot soldiers of Jordan's stalled tourist industry is that it will take more than the eulogized legacy of an eccentric British officer to bring visitors back. Especially if a U.S.-led military assault on Iraq goes ahead and opens what King Abdullah II has described as "the Pandora's box of the Middle East." Ali is, it seems, in for serious earache for some time to come...
...pose an increasingly worrisome problem for the $80 billion television industry. Just ask anyone who works in the music business, which in 1999 was upended by a free music service called Napster that made music swapping easy online. While Napster was subsequently hobbled by lawsuits, it pried open a Pandora's jewel box: Last year CD sales declined for the first time in a decade. Now, with the proliferation of a new generation of "file sharing" programs such as Morpheus, people are swapping TV shows and movies along with their music--more than 11 million Americans do it. And since...
...pose an increasingly worrisome problem for the $80 billion television industry. Just ask anyone who works in the music business, which in 1999 was upended by a free music service called Napster that made music swapping easy online. While Napster was subsequently hobbled by lawsuits, it pried open a Pandora's jewel box: Last year CD sales declined for the first time in a decade. Now, with the proliferation of a new generation of "file sharing" programs such as Morpheus, people are swapping TV shows and movies along with their music--more than 11 million Americans do it. And since...