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...Labour has made its stand - like a builder who tells you six months into the job that renovating your house will take twice as long and cost twice as much as promised. "We have a long, long way to go," Blair says repeatedly. Stranger still, voters are buying his plea for patience, even if it makes them grimace. One week before election day, a MORI poll gives Labour an astonishing 18-point lead over the Conservatives, whose leader, William Hague, nevertheless maintains an almost otherworldly serenity...
...second hearing on May 22, McMillan’s plea was supported by Ginny Nathans, the president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, a community organization devoted to protecting the historic character of the Square...
Welcome to the NFL. Just as Ashcroft's predecessor, Janet Reno, grappled with the Waco disaster a month after taking the reins, Ashcroft so far has been involved mostly with crisis control. Hanssen was indicted last week after plea negotiations between the feds and his lawyers broke down. The impasse, sources told TIME, was over Ashcroft's insistence on preserving the option to seek the death penalty in the case. That's against the advice of many in the FBI and the intelligence community--among them, the sources say, CIA Director George Tenet, who has personally lobbied Ashcroft several times...
...general has temporarily shut the gate on execution of the 12 still on death row in whose trials Gilchrist was involved. While the D.A.'s office believes that the convictions will stand, these cases will be the first to be reconsidered. Defense lawyers fear that the innocent who took plea bargains in the face of her expertise will never come to light...
...reports - had negotiated with Syria over returning the territory, they were unable to resolve disputes over just where the international border began and ended and over the security guarantees required by Israel. The pope's visit to the Golan Heights area may have been designed to dramatize his plea for peace, but nobody's expecting any movement on that front any time soon. Whereas his predecessors were prepared to consider trading the Heights for a peace agreement and elaborate security guarantees, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon insists that holding onto the territory remains a strategic imperative for Israel...