Word: trialing
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...certain kind of courtroom drama, there comes a point at which the guilty party confesses in open court. Few people would have expected a moment like that to emerge from any trial of the 9/11 suspects at Guantánamo--terrorists aren't prone to making their captors' tasks easier. But on Dec. 8, in a hushed and heavily guarded courtroom, alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his co-defendants abruptly offered to confess to coordinating the attacks--in effect, pleading guilty to the murder of 3,000 people. With family members of some of the 9/11 victims...
...curious way, an execution could be seen as a victory for both Bush and Mohammed. But with Barack Obama hoping to make good on his promise to close Gitmo, some of the camp's more than 225 prisoners can expect to be released. The rest, including Mohammed, would face trial in more conventional U.S. courts...
Though the trial started in September, thanks to procedural delays, Jaruzelski finished reading his 200-page opening statement only in late November. In court he appears fragile but speaks firmly. His defense rests on the argument that with radicals threatening to take over the Solidarity movement and Moscow watching closely, he had no choice but to order the crackdown. Soviet troops put down a popular rebellion in Hungary in 1956 and destroyed a reformist Czech regime in 1968. Jaruzelski was acutely aware that Poland could suffer a similar fate. Martial law was a "dramatically difficult decision," but it "saved Poland...
...Poland's communist regime in 1989. Even Lech Walesa, the legendary Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was interned for almost a year in the clampdown, has said that Jaruzelski would have been considered a "great patriot" had he lived in different times and that the trial was a "mistake...
...surprise who did best. At the end of the 16-week trial, the lottery group dropped an average of 13.1 lb., with 53% reaching the goal. In the deposit-contract group, the average weight loss was 14 lb., with 47% taking off 16 lb. or more. People in the no-incentive group logged an average weight loss of just 3.9 lb., with only 11% of them reaching the 16-lb. goal. As for the payouts? The winning lottery players walked away with an average of $272.80. The most successful members of the deposit group pocketed a cool $378.49, on average...