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...October 2007, Captain Sam Cahill (Maguire) is preparing for another tour of duty, this time in Afghanistan. That leaves him just enough time to say goodbye to his loving wife Grace (Portman) and their two bright young daughters and to fetch from prison his wastrel brother Tommy (Gyllenhaal), who is at the end of his sentence for assaulting a bank teller. Shortly after arriving in Afghanistan, Sam's plane is shot down and crashes; he and his men are believed dead, and Grace soon gets the awful news. In fact, he and another Marine have been captured by a Taliban...
...what investigators found on July 8, when federal and local authorities working in teams across eight states staged the largest raid in history against the underground dogfighting racket. Twenty-six people were arrested (five of whom are scheduled to be sentenced to as much as five years in prison on Dec. 8 in St. Louis, Mo.), and more than 500 dogs were rescued, most of them pit bull terriers...
...Africa's revolutions were mostly led by Western-educated black élites. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's pan-Africanist, earned a B.A., and M.A., in the U.S. Zimbabwean Robert Mugabe is a former teacher who was raised, in part, by the Jesuits and earned four university degrees by correspondence in prison. Mbeki too spent years in exile studying Marxism in Britain and the Soviet Union. Even Mandela was a chief's son and one of the country's first black lawyers before he became a revolutionary. For these men, the struggle was as much intellectual as physical. (See pictures of South...
After a yearlong trial, American student Amanda Knox was found guilty for killing her British roommate while studying abroad in Italy in 2007. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison, on counts of murder and sexual assault, while avoiding Italy's stiffest life sentence. Her ex-boyfriend Rafaelle Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. Knox, 22, was accused of killing British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in November...
...game with Knox and Sollecito and was sexually assaulted by a third accomplice, Rudy Hermann Guede. A native of the Ivory Coast, Guede opted for a separate, fast-track trial and was convicted of murder and sexual assault in October 2008 and sentenced to 30 years in prison, but Italian prosecutors say Knox and her boyfriend were accomplices. The prosecution's two main pieces of physical evidence against Knox - small traces of her DNA on a knife and on Kercher's bra clasp - were both disputed: defense lawyers maintained that the clasp wasn't discovered until six weeks after...