Word: releasees
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Manuel knows what it takes to bring the powerful round to his point of view. He grew up poor in Cape Town. Under the apartheid racial-classification system, he was considered "colored," or mixed race, and thus confined to a home in the Cape Flats, the hot, treeless townships between...
• "Ivan the Terrible walked out a free man." - Efraim Zuroff, director of the Israeli office of the Simon Wiesenthal Institute, speaking after Demjanjuk's 1993 release. (New York Times, July 30, 1993)
• Following his release, Demjanjuk returned to the U.S., where his citizenship was restored in 1998. The following year, new evidence spurred the U.S. Justice Department to rekindle the case.
"The mills of justice grind slowly, and sometimes not very finely," says Paeffgen dryly. The twins disagree. "We are proud of the German legal system and grateful," they told Berlin's daily Der Tagesspiegel through a family member after their release.
But some also blame the ruling Congress Party for playing politics with sport. IPL chairman Lalit Modi is known to be close to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Some BJP leaders have pointed out that states where the Congress or its allies are in power were the ones that denied...