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Remember when being charged with child molestation was a bad thing? In a spectacle that even hardened TV-news commentators described as a freak show, pop star MICHAEL JACKSON appeared in a Santa Maria, Calif., court to plead not guilty to seven counts of lewd acts with a child and two counts of giving intoxicants to a child. Outside, hundreds of fans--some of whom arrived on buses chartered by Jacko's camp--screamed their support while Jackson's bodyguards handed out invitations to the star's Neverland Ranch for postarraignment festivities. Later, Jackson climbed onto the roof...
...eyes of an orphan too proud to plead, too desperate to reproach. She is poor, female and 12, and in mid-'90s Afghanistan, with the Taliban thug clerics in power, that means no schooling, employment or respect. Then her mother has an idea. Cut the girl's hair, dress her in robes and give her a boy's name--Osama--so she can find work as a "boy" and support the tattered family...
...patrols by infantry squads in full battle gear, and visitors get turned inside out before they're allowed anywhere near the cellblocks. Getting out legally doesn't seem much easier. The detainees--660 suspects from 44 countries, scooped up in the war on terrorism--cannot challenge their arrests or plead their cases or even talk to a lawyer, because the U.S. government denies that they have those rights. They are not U.S. citizens, and the base, while under total U.S. control, is not on American soil; since 1903, it has been leased from Cuba for 2,000 gold coins...
Even so, the American Girl stores are teeming with strangely serene mothers and grandmothers who don't seem to mind being dragged around by their bouncing, panting, ranting offspring, who beg and plead for a $70 miniature tepee or $38 Victorian commode. The genius behind American Girl's high-end products is that moms feel good about dropping a lot of cash on low-tech, wholesome Americana. Most of the dolls depict 9year-old fictional heroines at various points in American history, including Kaya, a Nez Perce tribe member in 1764, and Josefina, a Latina on hand for the opening...
Davey said he enjoys having a chance to plead his case to the public...