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...Police arrested the brothers on Feb. 11 in a gambling arcade and charged both with burglary, an offense that carries a potential 10-year prison sentence. But on March 18, before the case went to trial, they were released. The twins - who have made no comment on the charges - "are laughing at the rule of law in this country," opined Germany's mass-market daily Bild...
...sheen of the new administration has already begun to fade. During the first week of his presidency, Obama gave a very pretty speech in which he “rejected as false the choice between safety and ideals” and signed an executive order to close the controversial prison at the United States naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama’s first post on the White House website also claimed that his administration would be “the most open and transparent in history.” But the promise of “change?...
...look at Ireland as a genesis of ethnic conflict.” Adams also spoke of his relationship with the United States—specifically with Bill and Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and Vice-President Biden. He described how the youngest generation in Ireland has never visited a prison, something that would have been far from the norm for young people even a generation ago. “They have and deserve a wonderful future, and this wouldn’t have happened without the involvement of people in the USA,” he said. Adams concluded by asking...
...Olson - who formally changed her name in 1999 - pleaded guilty to both crimes, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempted murder in connection with the pipe bomb incident. In 2008, she was briefly released when California's parole board miscalculated her parole eligibility; Olson spent five days with her family before being returned to prison. Her impending release this week also sparked a kerfuffle, with Minnesota officials - including Governor Tim Pawlenty - petitioning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to force Olson to serve her parole in California, the state in which she committed her crimes. Those requests were denied...
...credited with helping to end the Cold War: Pope John Paul II. Giansanti traveled the world with the globetrotting Pontiff and, while he was on the other side of Rome when the attempt was made on the Pope's life, Giansanti was among the photographers at Rebibbia prison when John Paul went to forgive his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca. Giansanti's large portfolio of images of the Polish Pope at work and prayer in the Vatican were integral to TIME when the magazine made the Supreme Pontiff its 1994 Man of the Year. (See Giansanti's 1994 photograph...