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...secret that the other players on the floor are not the ones Brown wanted. The original 2004 roster included such fundamentally gifted veterans as Jason Kidd, Kevin Garnett, Karl Malone, Ray Allen and Kobe Bryant, but each backed out, with excuses that varied in believability from a rape trial to security concerns to a hastily scheduled wedding. Instinctively, it seems that a team comprising Duncan, Allen Iverson and three lucky fans should be able to hang with Puerto Rico, but not only have other nations got significantly better at basketball--"There are no more blowouts to be had," says U.S.A...
FILED. A civil lawsuit against NBA star KOBE BRYANT, 25; by the unnamed woman who claims he raped her in a Vail, Colo., hotel room; in Denver. Her suit seeks compensatory damages of at least $75,000 and unspecified punitive damages. Prosecutors in Bryant's criminal trial for rape later sought a delay in that trial's Aug. 27 start date, claiming courthouse gaffes have made it impossible to obtain a fair jury. The judge denied the request...
...call the pogroms genocide - in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene to save the Darfurians." Excuse me, but what is so wrong with taking action? We cannot afford to wait for 500,000 people to die and for more women and children to be raped before the international community intervenes. Where are the leaders of the larger, more powerful countries of Africa while the atrocities are going on? African nations and organizations should be called to account for letting them happen in their backyard. Their silence will be recognized as consent to the killing...
RELEASED. MARY KAY LETOURNEAU, 42, former sixth-grade teacher convicted of child rape for her ongoing sexual relationship with then 12-year-old Vili Fualaau; after serving more than seven years in state prison; in Gig Harbor, Wash. LeTourneau and Fualaau, now 21, will be allowed to see each other now that the judge in the case has rescinded a court order that barred them from doing...
...inconceivable how this court can explain its continual pattern of revictimizing this 20-year-old girl." JOHN CLUNE, attorney for Kobe Bryant's accuser in his rape case, whose name was revealed when sealed documents were mistakenly posted on the Internet, in the third such slipup...