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...documentary filmmaker for ITV, a major British channel, and a subsequent inteview they gave to the BBC. Moreover, the McCanns now say they may write a book to tell their side of things. "We receive dozens of requests for book deals and may consider them in the future," says Sonia Beldom, a spokesperson for the couple. News reports say a book contract could be worth $2 million. Certainly other books are in the offing, both in Britain and Portugal, including The Truth of the Lie, by Goncalo Amaral, the police officer who led the investigation until he was fired...
Amidst those muddled Andean politics, some suggest a better hope for the Americans may be sitting inside U.S. jails. In 2004 and 2005, Colombia extradited to the U.S. two FARC leaders, Ricardo Palmera, a.k.a. Simon Trinidad, and Omaira Rojas, a.k.a. Sonia. Sonia was convicted last year on drug charges and given 17 years in prison; Trinidad, convicted for conspiracy in the Americans' capture, was sentenced to 60 years in January. The FARC has made the pair's release a condition for the U.S. hostages' freedom. The U.S. has designated the FARC a terrorist group and can't negotiate with...
...past couple of months, as speculation has turned to the possibility of an early election, Mayawati has held a series of rallies around the country and has begun testing her political weight, perhaps to see how far she can go. On March 31, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi criticized Mayawati for not running Uttar Pradesh properly. Yet on her birthday, both Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was in China at the time, had made sure to call Mayawati to wish her well. After all, they might need her support in a matter of months...
...Aside from their formal attire and the adult setting they find themselves in, their awkward conversations and adolescent posture quickly betray them as college students. This is the beginning of “Twelve Angry Men,” directed by Julia M. Runcie ’10 and Sonia G. DeYoung ’10 and produced by Joy Ding ’10, which runs through this Friday in the Loeb Ex. The play details the deliberation of a jury that must decide the fate of a 16-year-old boy on trial for murder. Although the actors...
...current poll is, in many ways, a referendum on Modi and whether his modernization policies outweigh his reputation for ethnic demagoguery. Sonia Gandhi, leader of the ruling Indian National Congress party, has spent days campaigning around the state and has accused Modi and his party of playing on communal tensions to win votes. The Gujarat government, she said, were "merchants of death" - a charge that Modi and his party say is outrageous. Gandhi's comment and one by Modi that seemed to endorse the controversial police killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, a young Muslim man who was allegedly wrongly branded...