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While Mayman chose not to participate in the search process for her successor, she said her first impression of Megan was overwhelmingly positive...
What happened next is no laughing matter. Ibrahim may have made a mistake in suggesting that President Hosni Mubarak, marking his 20th year in power, might also fancy having a son as his successor. Soon after the article appeared last June, police paid Ibrahim a midnight visit and hauled him away for 42 days in detention without charge. Hinting he'd be booked for spying, the authorities accused him of illegally receiving and misusing funds, planning to bribe officials and tarnishing the reputation of Egypt. This week Ibrahim, 62, wraps up his defense in a six-month trial...
...change of heart may be most remarkable in Texas, where 40 people were put to death in 2000. So far this year, seven have been executed. Governor Rick Perry, Bush's Republican successor, recently signed a bill giving the accused access to state-paid DNA testing, the strongest such law in the country. A pending bill would add life without parole to sentencing options in capital cases; another would exempt the mentally retarded from capital punishment and improve the quality of lawyers assigned to the cases of indigent defendants. Most striking of all is a bill that would allow Texans...
...course if you ask what people are reading into the event, it's an opportunity for the cardinals to get to know each other ahead of the time when they'll have to gather to choose a successor to John Paul...
...What considerations will guide the choice of a successor to the pope...