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...Islamabad, the country's highest Islamic judicial authority, ruled that it had sole jurisdiction in a high-profile rape case. The ruling overturned a lower court's acquittal of five of the defendants a week earlier. The victim said a tribal council ordered her ordeal as a punishment. Poison Probe THE PHILIPPINES Authorities launched an investigation into the deaths of at least 27 elementary schoolchildren in the southern island of Bohol who were apparently poisoned by cassava sweets bought from street vendors. Health officials said the inquiry would focus on the possibility that the children were poisoned either by cyanide...
...matter where he goes from here, Rees has already left his mark on the political humor genre, pushing its boundaries further than anyone before him, and ridiculing his targets with a poison unmatched by any of his competitors...
...phone call to his mother Evelyn Hutcheson, who read his message to a TIME reporter in the tiny kitchen of her East Peoria home: "I totally condemn it ... Only an idiot would think that I would do this." Hutcheson defends her son: "He's a racist. He has a poison mouth. But he's not guilty of this...
...years after being labeled "box-office poison," Katharine Hepburn returned to Hollywood, starring in the film version of the Philip Barry comedy she had performed in on Broadway. Cannily, she let her character be pushed around--literally, by Cary Grant--while radiating a patrician glow even Cate Blanchett couldn't match. James Stewart is the working-class fella who briefly obscures the Grant-Hepburn limelight, and George Cukor directs with his usual quiet mastery. Those lusciously long takes remind viewers that star quality, not editing, is the essence of classic Hollywood cinema. The DVD has some cool extras, including Hepburn...
...ANNOUNCED. For two of Saddam Hussein's top associates, ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID and BARZAN AL-TIKRITI; in Baghdad. Al-Majid, Hussein's cousin, and al-Tikriti, his half-brother, are the first of 12 senior Hussein allies in American custody to face trial. Al-Majid was implicated in poison-gas attacks against Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s, for which he was nicknamed "Chemical Ali," and al-Tikriti is alleged to have overseen the 1982 razing of a village north of Baghdad. The trials will be broadcast live worldwide this spring from Baghdad...