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...Camp Zeist in the Netherlands (a political compromise between Scotland, the U.S. and Libya so the case could be heard) calls Megrahi's 2001 conviction "an absolute and utter outrage." But if, indeed, Megrahi has suffered a miscarriage of justice, the appeal may be a chance for Scotland to redeem itself, says Black. Some changes have been made already. First, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, the official judicial scrutinizer that issued yesterday's report, did not even exist when the Camp Zeist trial was planned. Second, judges are now nominated by an independent board. The judges at Megrahi...
...think most of the responsibility [in the Princeton match] lay with me that we ended up not making the finals,” he said. “I felt when I went in two weeks later, I was playing for the team to redeem myself...
...redeem himself he did. In a hard-fought match with frequent shifts of momentum, Suchde remained focused and pulled out a convincing four-game win, 9-2, 7-9, 10-8, 9-2, avenging his earlier defeats and ending a run of seven out of eight national titlists from Princeton...
...victory, as the Tigers stormed back and stole the title away from Harvard. To add injury to insult, Suchde, the Crimson’s No. 1 player, sustained an ankle injury in his match against Princeton’s Mauricio Sanchez, forcing him to retire. Trying to redeem a once-promising season, Harvard, without an Ivy title, vied for the CSA Team Championship. The Crimson breezed through the first round, defeating Western Ontario, 9-0, but Princeton proved to be troublesome once again. The Tigers won a close 5-4 match, relegating Harvard to the third-place match, where...
...land of his birth, the usual way to do it would be, first, return to Afghanistan, and then, second, write a novel about it. Khaled Hosseini did it backward. He wrote the runaway best-seller The Kite Runner first, about an Afghan living in California who returns home to redeem a moment of cowardice from his childhood. Only in 2003, when the book was already done, did Hosseini go back to Kabul, the city where he was born. He hadn't seen it in 27 years...