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OVERTURNED. Death sentence of MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, 47, charismatic former Black Panther and journalist whose book Live from Death Row spawned worldwide support among opponents of the death penalty; in Philadelphia. A federal judge upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction in the 1981 murder of white police officer Daniel Faulkner but found that the instructions to the jury were unconstitutional...
...winter of 2000, Mike Kehoe was called to a first-alarm fire at an apartment in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. No one was home, but he scaled the roof to break a skylight and release the explosive gases building within. A photo of Mike perched atop a row of Brooklyn brownstones appeared in the Daily News the following morning. The guys at the firehouse joked for a few minutes that he was almost famous. His mother cut out the photo and filed it away in her scrapbook...
...scientist Joyce Gilchrist came in 1987, but it wasn't until January that accusations of questionable work and testimony surfaced. The FBI reviewed eight cases: in five the chemist made claims not backed by science. The state is now investigating some 1,200 more, including those of 12 death-row inmates. Gilchrist has been fired...
...Muslim families are still living in a row of shops in what was once Poso's commercial district. Adults peep out from behind heavy green metal shutters. Their children are bolder, and a gang of five- or six-year-old boys dressed in black vests and bin Laden T shirts, their heads covered by black balaclavas, race in and out of the grimy front room of the Laskar headquarters repeatedly shouting "Assalamu' alaikum" (may peace be with you) as they wield machetes, 30-cm daggers and loaded shotguns. Their antics draw an abrupt, approving laugh from Ichsan. Obviously the boys...
Dunham, who started in place of injured co-captain Katie Gates for the second game in a row, also hit a crucial coast-to-coast layup in the final minute of the first half to cut the peak Husky lead of 16 down...