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...years ago, two nephews of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen were accused of involvement in a shootout in a Phnom Penh shopping center. After a brief stretch in jail, the pair was released when a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to support charges that they possessed guns at the scene of the shooting. Last week, another of the Prime Minister's nephews was on trial, this time accused of manslaughter?and again the case appears to be falling apart. According to police, Nhim Sophea, the 22-year-old son of Hun Sen's sister, was partying with friends...
...time. "If you look at the caucuses system, they are dominated by the special interests in both parties, [and] the special interests don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people," Vermont's then governor Howard Dean said on an obscure Canadian public-affairs program. The caucuses can stretch on all night, Dean noted, and he expressed wonderment that average people would even bother with them: "I can't stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world...
...initially landed. He was right. Ten years later, the newcomer had earned enough to get his sisters Celia, Dora and Riva to the States as well. Together they would form the roots of the Albert family tree in the nation's heartland--one with long branches that would eventually stretch from Los Angeles to Denver to Mendham...
Starting the second half with a rigid press that generated seven of Lafayette’s 33 turnovers in under five minutes, Harvard netted several easy baskets to stretch a four-point halftime lead into a 15-point advantage just 4:24 later. During that stretch, Peljto scored nine points—six on layups—driving a 16-2 Crimson run that sent the Leopards reeling...
...glass—Peljto provided a solid presence in the paint by allowing her defenders to achieve position in front before receiving lob passes over the top for an easy deuce. The strategy contributed to Peljto’s 11-point run over the course of a 5:43 stretch during the middle of the second period...