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...filled a unique niche in Cambridge with its specialty sections on the second floor, including classical, jazz, and foreign music. “There is nowhere else where you can get these things,” he said, emphasizing the lack of classical music in other stores. In a plea to his competitors, Valentine added, “we can only hope that, now that we are gone, they can take over.” Taking notice, nearby Newbury Comics, which began more than a quarter-century ago as a comic specialty store but has since expanded to music...
PLEADED GUILTY. Melson Bacos, 21, U.S. Navy medic; to kidnapping and conspiracy in the murder of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad; at Camp Pendleton, Calif. As part of a plea deal--murder and other charges against him were dropped--Bacos testified that he tried to intervene, then watched as two Marines fired 10 rounds into Awad's head after abducting him from his home in the Iraqi town of Hamdania. One of seven Marines charged in the crime, Bacos was first to go to a court-martial...
...States of America fixed its attention westward, away from the Old World and toward its own expansion. But the divorce was never intended to be total. Much of the Declaration itself was a plea for European sympathy and understanding. "Let Facts be submitted to a candid world," it argued. "A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." If the Americans were insisting on moving out of the house, they still wanted to be invited back for the holidays. But would they be, today? Wherever you look...
...maximum penalty for Smiley’s crimes would be 10 years of jail, but in a plea agreement with Smiley, federal prosecutors said they would seek a lighter sentence...
...militants convicted of plotting the massacre of at least 70 Muslims on Sulawesi during sectarian violence on the Indonesian island in 1998-2000; in Poso, Indonesia. Rights groups criticized the trio's 2001 conviction, claiming that Muslims had received lighter sentences for similar crimes, while the Vatican issued a plea for clemency last month. Christians rioted across eastern Indonesia following the executions...