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...friends and family stuck to him or his wife. That scenario has now come to pass. Prosecutors say Wu used others' receipts to falsely claim $450,000 from a state fund. Three presidential aides were also charged, and Chen himself was listed as an accomplice and could face charges upon leaving office, when he loses presidential immunity. Amid renewed demonstrations against Chen in Taipei, Ma Ying-jeou, head of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), vowed a third recall motion if the President did not step down within two days...
...it’s a long season.” The Crimson had a strong showing on the diving front as well, as sophomore Tom Hehir won both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events. Although Harvard won by a large margin on Saturday, its swimmers agreed upon the need to stay focused. The Crimson will face more touted opposition later on this season. “[Penn] swam better against us than they have in the past, but there’s much better competition out there in the league,” Rathbeger said...
...grandiloquence and force may have been a little too overbearing at times. But, the powerful close of the third movement evoked a “Bravo!” from a listener and unconventional applause from the audience between the movements—a practice usually frowned upon by classical music goers.Perhaps the most moving and anguished movement of the entire evening was the fourth movement of the symphony. It stressed more effectively than ever the theme of misfortune and desolation: Tchaikovsky’s symphony premiered nine days before his death—which may have been a suicide...
...city of several layers of desert sand. Late in the morning, Ahmed Hussein, a government-employed street sweeper, looked up into the overcast and still-rumbling skies and nodded approvingly. "This is the right weather for a day like this," he said. "The rain is God's blessing upon the verdict...
...turn out in the imagination of U.S. officials back in the winter of 2003, when he was found in that Tikrit spider-hole. J. Paul Bremer, the American administrator of Iraq, had hoped seeing Saddam on the dock would allow Iraqis to exorcise the demons he had unleashed upon them during his long reign. More recently, as the country descended into a sectarian war, some U.S. and Iraqi officials clung to the hope that the trial would remind Shi'ites and Sunnis how they had once been unified in misery under his rule...