Word: trialing
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...office with tanks containing live pythons and rented a $32,000-per-month mansion from Donald Trump, he still seems to have trouble figuring out who he is. In a letter to the judge presiding over his case, Israel, who as his name suggests is Jewish, claimed the trial had forced him to reassess “what it means to be a Christian...
...Anwar scandal could divert attention from the trial of Najib's ex-aide, at the same time weakening the campaign against Abdullah. Anwar recently said the opposition needs only 28 members of parliament to defect from the ruling coalition in order for the opposition to take power. He has been aggressively courting crossovers among political representatives from the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak, which are among Malaysia's poorest despite plentiful natural resources...
...Razak is also under a cloud from another Malaysian sex scandal involving members of the political élite. In 2006, Abdul Razak Baginda, a political think-tank head and former adviser to Najib, was charged with abetting the murder of his Mongolian ex-lover. The aide is now standing trial, along with two government security agents who are accused of having killed the woman and blowing up her body with military-grade explosives in a jungle clearing near Kuala Lumpur. Najib has denied any knowledge of or involvement in the murder...
...Internet, for all its world-flattening glory, is a destroyer of businesses without parallel. How many companies roared along for decades, minting money, only to see the Internet eat their business plans? We live in a media age and the media industry is Exhibit A in the murder trial. Newspapers, magazines, music, television, movies - all of the traditional models are dead or dying as bloodied moguls everywhere scramble to survive. But the Net has brutalized old-line business across most industries - retail, telecom, financial services - and the technology industry itself, is, ironically, no exception...
...recent example of this ambivalence is the 2006 Supreme Court case on whether it was prejudicial for a murder victim's family to wear buttons with a picture of the deceased during a trial. After much debate, the Supreme Court overturned a U.S. Court of Appeals decision and ruled that the buttons were permissible. "There is a tendency to assume that any emotion is necessarily distorting," Berman explains, but as the Supreme Court case showed, "that's overly broad." Emotional displays may simply enhance the issue at hand, not obscure or manipulate...