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...pending felony case, Pomey and Gomes were denied degrees in 2002. After an unsuccessful effort by Pomey to suppress a confession she made to police and to be tried separately from Gomes, both changed their pleas to “guilty” at a September 2002 hearing. Prosecutors sought jail time, while lawyers for the defendants argued that the judge should order pre-trial probation, a step which would have prevented the guilty plea from being entered on their permanent record...
Just last month, a Middlesex Superior Court judge denied defense motions to change venue and to suppress evidence in the case, which is now scheduled for trial in September...
...DIED. WILLIAM MANCHESTER, 82, scrupulous author of thrilling narratives on military and political power, best known for his 1967 book on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, The Death of a President; in Middletown, Connecticut. Jacqueline Kennedy tried to suppress the book's publication because of the inclusion of intimate family details, but relented when Manchester removed some passages. His works also included acclaimed biographies of Douglas MacArthur and Winston Churchill...
...whereas those upset with Dick Cheney’s secret energy powwows have taken him to court, Annan is in the comfortable position of having the authority (since the U.N. hardly has the types of checks and balances legitimate governmental organizations do) to suppress whatever reports he want. And, in this case, 50 Oil-for-Food audit reports have underwent this same fate—even as Annan declares he knows nothing about the whole situation...
...started to do sports, it was just to be part of the normal population." His first choice: judo. "Bruce Lee!" he exclaims, a grin stretching across his bronzed face. "Everybody wanted to be Bruce Lee!" But this was Poland, 1981 - the communist regime had imposed martial law to suppress opposition, and the authorities didn't like the idea of all those teens gathering nightly to chop and kick like the kung-fu movie star. They ended the training sessions "under the pretext of renovating the gym," Korzeniowski says. "Of course they never finished, and athletics was the only session open...