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...marries the publisher, who becomes enraged on their wedding night and insists she kill herself. The gun goes off, and he's dead. At her trial she's a symphony in black in her widow's weeds, but she's able to flash a becoming smile at the prosecutor, who for a flustered moment forgets he's supposed to demand that she be given the death penalty...
...Numbers $240 billion Amount taken in bribes by Russian bureaucrats each year, according to the country's Deputy Prosecutor General $259 billion Russia's predicted budget revenues...
...problem." U.S. officials made clear the case could adversely impact U.S.-Germany relations, and Rumsfeld indicated he would not attend a major security conference in Munich, where he was scheduled to be the keynote speaker, unless Germany disposed of the case. The day before the conference, a German prosecutor announced he would not pursue the matter, saying there was no indication that U.S. authorities and courts would not deal with allegations in the complaint...
...bringing the new case, however, the plaintiffs argue that circumstances have changed in two important ways. Rumsfeld's resignation, they say, means that the former Defense Secretary will lose the legal immunity usually accorded high government officials. Moreover, the plaintiffs argue that the German prosecutor's reasoning for rejecting the previous case - that U.S. authorities were dealing with the issue - has been proven wrong...
...Commissions Act, a law passed by Congress earlier this year, effectively blocks prosecution in the U.S. of those involved in detention and interrogation abuses of foreigners held abroad in American custody going to back to Sept. 11, 2001. As a result, Ratner contends, the legal arguments underlying the German prosecutor's previous inaction no longer hold...