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...right [on my application],” Delaney recalls. But the consequences of not receiving senior standing are not limited to those looking to land a fellowship or job. Abby E. Feuer ’08 received confirmation in July that the OIP had received her transcript from Madrid, Spain. Yet, the fficial records still had her listed as a junior. Hoping to run for Class Marshal, Feuer was especially distraught. “You come back, think you are fine, but then you have to run around to make sure you are a senior,” Feuer says...
...Explaining the decision to appeal to the Spanish newspaper ABC, chief prosecutor Javier Zaragoza maintained that the two charges were not identical. "Different people were implicated, different criminal activities committed - the Italian conviction doesn't include all the activities of the group that developed in Spain," he said. According to Zaragoza's interpretation, Osman was involved with two separatist organizations, and can therefore be convicted separately for membership in each...
...fast. Less than a week after Spain's national court acquitted Rabei Osman of all charges in the 2004 Madrid train bombings in which 191 people were killed, prosecutors have appealed the sentence. On Tuesday, they filed their appeal, alleging that some of the grounds used to acquit Osman, who was charged, among other things, with being the "intellectual author," or mastermind, behind the train bombings, were faulty...
...what's going on here? "If the sentence is being appealed in Italy, then the [Spanish] court made a mistake," says Cancio. "This was a huge case, and an error might have slipped through." But Queralt believes Bermúdez was justified even if appeals were still going on. "Spain's Constitutional Court changed things a few years ago, ruling in one case that all appeals don't have to be exhausted," he says. "It's enough that the process is under way." Endika Zulueta, Osman's lawyer, sides with Queralt. In an e-mail, he writes, "I will contest...
...Firm? Not firm? One organization or two? It is now up to Spain's Supreme Court to work out the fine points over the next year or so. In the meantime, hostile debate of the Madrid bombings - who was involved; who blamed whom for what; should investigations carry on or not - continues to be the favorite sport of Spanish politicians. On Tuesday, the Congress of Deputies debated whether the opposition Popular Party had mounted a "media jihad" in its efforts to prove that ETA was indeed involved in the attacks. The uncertainty surrounding Osman's sentence will just give them...