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According to the Cambridge Chronicle, Cosby was arrested in May, 2007 for Class D drug possession—a charge that could refer to either marijuana or certain prescription drugs. Cosby’s mother, as well as multiple acquaintances contacted by The Crimson in recent days, have said that they did not believe that Justin Cosby was the type of person to have any involvement with drugs...
...same global allure of the woman who Burmese simply refer to as "the Lady" that, in the strangest of circumstances, landed Suu Kyi in court and on trial on May 18. The 63-year-old democracy activist is charged with violating her house arrest by allowing an American intruder to stay at her lakeside villa after he unexpectedly - and illegally - swam across a lake and snuck into her backyard. John Yettaw of Missouri was arrested as he was paddling back from Suu Kyi's villa in early May. The American was put on trial the same...
...author of Fight Club, Choke and Invisible Monsters gives readings in concert halls, has been known to throw inflatable sex dolls into the audience and inspires fans to tattoo his name onto their arms. The novelist's official fan site boasts over 47,000 crazed Palahniuk-heads who openly refer to themselves as the Cult and sell book-tour T shirts the way music acts sell concert tees. His latest book, Pygmy, follows the terror plot of an adolescent foreign-exchange student/secret assassin as he infiltrates and tries to destroy middle America. Palahniuk talked to TIME about the new novel...
...enthusiastically backed proposing the EaP to the six former Soviet republics began scrambling to lower its scope ahead of its May 7 launch in Prague. Just hours before the gathering, for example, German and Dutch officials pushed to change wording in the official document to refer to the six EaP postulates as "partner countries" rather than "European countries". They similarly struck any language that even remotely hinted at possible E.U. membership for any time in the future, and revised a "long-term goal" previously described as "visa-free travel" by EaP citizens to the E.U. down to more modest "visa...
...participating would be an abdication of electoral responsibility. In the end, the NLD released a statement saying they would play a part if the Burmese government released the more than 2,100 political prisoners languishing in jail. The NLD also called for the release of the woman most Burmese refer to simply as "the Lady." But it's unlikely that the junta will meet such demands...