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...prison - could not be changed. However, two days before Bermúdez presented that verdict, an appeals court in Milan did just that, reducing Osman's sentence to eight years. And it turns out that Osman is mounting another appeal. Spanish prosecutor Olga Sánchez referred to this twist when she filed her request that the acquittal be revisited. "The decision of the Milan criminal court still hasn't acquired firmness," she wrote...
...goals-against averages, respectively, return from last year’s NCAA Tournament team. And keeping them company will be Kylie Stephens, a freshman goaltender from North Carolina who showed a great deal of promise during the preseason. ONLY ROOM FOR ONEThe Crimson experienced a dramatic twist prior to last season: Kessler, entering her freshman year as a highly touted recruit from the Toronto area, arrived in Cambridge with her knee in a brace.The summer speculation was that Harvard would be loaded in net with the return of Martin from a successful rookie campaign and the addition of Kessler...
...Communist Party are taboo, and the culture cops occasionally shutter avant-garde exhibitions. Nevertheless, ironic depictions of Chairman Mao and not-so-subtle critiques of official corruption or urban alienation fill Beijing and Shanghai galleries. Some artists, particularly those who grew up during the Cultural Revolution, playfully twist that era's socialist-realist propaganda art - think heroic laborers, red-cheeked peasants and stalwart soldiers lifting banners with brand names or consumerist messages. Best known among these political popsters is Wang Guangyi, whose painting of Mao behind bars sold for $4 million last month...
Early concerns about Tasers centered on the issue of safety, but the controversy has recently taken a new twist, focusing on the conflict between civil rights and police procedure. Though the device was initially developed as an alternative to lethal force, it has become a go-to weapon in situations of noncompliance even when the use of firearms would not be considered - like the incident with Meyer, who agreed to 18 months of probation on Tuesday in order to avoid criminal charges of resisting arrest. "I think because it's electricity, and because of past use of electricity in torture...
...further colorful twist, the lawyer claiming to represent Strachan is an Italian named Giovanni di Stefano. The Guardian newspaper once profiled di Stefano, a personal friend of Saddam Hussein's, describing the Italian's then client roster as "a veritable rogues' gallery of the most notorious criminals of the past few decades." Di Stefano told the Daily Mail newspaper that Strachan denies asking for money for the tape but was offered money for it by the alleged victim's office. According to the Daily Mail, the lawyer said the tape shows "an assistant to a member of the royal family...