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Pring-Wilson fatally stabbed Cambridge teen Michael D. Colono following a fight outside a pizza parlor in April 2003. A jury convicted Pring-Wilson of voluntary manslaughter last October, and Quinlan sentenced him up to eight years in prison...
...when Jose Padilla learned last week that he had been indicted, "he was extremely happy," his attorney Andrew Patel told TIME. Padilla, a U.S. citizen who has been held as an "enemy combatant" by the military since mid-2002, will be transferred from a Navy brig to a federal prison and, more important, will get a trial date...
WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR TOUGHEST MOMENT? I was in prison after an attempted coup in 1985 with about 12 other so-called rebels, all of whom were killed. At that point, I felt a bit of fear, I must admit. But I became more determined to continue until I got to the place where I could change things...
...CHARGED. PAUL FRANCIS GADD, 61, a.k.a. Gary Glitter, with "committing lewd acts with minors"; in Vung Tau, Vietnam. The 1970s glam-rock icon best known for hits like Rock and Roll (Part 2) and Leader of the Gang served two months in prison in his native Great Britain in 1999 for possession of child pornography and was expelled from Cambodia in 2002 under suspicion of pedophilia, an accusation he denied. According to police, five young girls, one aged 11, say he paid them $10-20 for sex at his rented home. Gadd denies the allegations, saying that he only taught...
...election last May. In Uganda, an increasingly dictatorial Museveni announced two weeks ago that he will run for office again, following Parliament's decision to scrap term limits that would have forced him to retire. That long-expected bulletin came just days after his main opponent was thrown in prison on charges - vehemently denied - of treason and rape. Demonstrations have been temporarily banned. So, Achebe's lament still holds true, then? No. Fixing Africa was never as simple as changing its leaders. And that's why the fall from grace of Museveni and Zenawi may prove a positive thing, even...