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...more likely to be the subject of a Hong Kong crime movie than the star of one. While hundreds of his fans wept outside the court, Tse showed no emotion when the verdict was read: he was still playing the tough guy. His sentence, to be announced next week, can be no more than two years. One lawyer familiar with the case guesses that Tse will avoid hard time and be given community-service hours: "They might make him sing in old-lady homes...
...country? Pecorella says there's no conflict, noting that both he and the Prime Minister abstain from casting votes on the laws related to Berlusconi's cases. Critics say their votes are scarcely needed - Berlusconi's ruling center-right coalition has comfortable majorities in the two houses. With a verdict looming in a related case against his former Defense Minister Cesare Previti - and Berlusconi's own trial expected to wrap up by year's end - chairman Pecorella has given fast-track treatment to the current bill, which includes a provision to halt cases automatically when a venue change is requested...
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...lawyers to manufacture grounds for an appeal. And the sentence handed down is considerably softer than the life terms being served by his henchmen. "According to any legal logic," says Frans Hendra Winata, a Jakarta-based legal expert, "the mastermind behind the killing has to get a heavier verdict than the executioners." The court explained its decision with a list of mitigating factors: that Tommy had been depressed, had a family to support, that he was young and capable of reform. Either way, a court in Indonesia showed that no one is entirely above the law?a principle that Indonesians...
...Laden's al-Qaeda, want Musharraf's whole Yankee-loving crowd eliminated. Such radical groups have already registered their displeasure by setting off bombs to kill foreigners in the commercial capital of Karachi--11 French engineers died in a blast in May--and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl. A verdict for his accused killers is expected to be announced this week. A bigger score would be Musharraf. The general, who has been known to carry a gun, shrugs off the danger. Says his wife Sehba, who wed Musharraf four years after he graduated from the military academy...