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After two trials and nearly five years, Alexander Pring-Wilson has plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and has been sentenced to two years and one day in prison...
...reason to doubt the Maoists' commitment to democracy, although the other parties have now sought to accommodate that demand by agreeing that the monarchy will be abolished once a Constituent Assembly is elected. For their part, the Maoists, who proclaim themselves the true champions of democracy in Nepal, plead for patience as they move their "people's revolution" out of the jungle...
...hockey beat writer, but I am not a hypocrite. I’m not going to plead with the student body to choose Harvard-Cornell over Harvard-Yale, especially when I, like everybody else, will be halfway to New Haven by the time the puck drops at the Bright. Harvard isn’t a national athletic powerhouse in most major sports, but there’s no game anywhere quite like Harvard-Yale, especially not this year, and there’s no way you can miss...
...corpus as nothing more than a limit on government power, ignoring how intimately tied it is to the respect for human dignity. To lock someone in a cell as a criminal without giving him a chance to confront his accusers, to see the evidence presented against him, and to plead his case is an indefensible act of cruelty. Most of us would not (and do not) tolerate that treatment even for alleged rapists and murderers...
Since fleeing to Paris last February, Nur has repeated the same message to President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios; French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner; and the former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson. A steady stream of leading diplomats has met with Nur to plead with him to attend international peace talks with Sudan's government. "Everybody has been to see him, anybody who thinks they can have any influence whatsoever," says a European aid worker, who asked not to be named. "People are really, really, really trying to persuade him." That's because the mass killing...