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...born militant sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl filed an apeal challenging his conviction. After a trial held in secret, an antiterrorism court in Hyderabad sentenced Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death by hanging. Sheikh's lawyer, Abdul Waheed Katpar, said the verdict had been based on "provenly planted evidence." The three other defendants in the case, Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem and Sheikh Adil, were given life sentences. Their lawyer asked Sindh High Court to overturn their convictions, which he said were based on flimsy evidence. MALAYSIA Mixed Bag The main Islamic opposition...
Since the suit’s filing in September 2000, Harvard and the government had been negotiating to reach a settlement. The Globe reported these settlement talks have now broken down, leading the government to ask the judge for an immediate verdict against the University. Harvard has also asked the judge to make an immediate decision in the case—requesting the court clear the University of all allegations of wrongdoing...
Even an acquittal would probably not have saved the firm. "The verdict doesn't matter anyway," says Arthur Bowman, editor of Bowman's Accounting Report. "Arthur Andersen is dead. Once the indictment was handed down, clients started jumping faster than they did off the Titanic." A third of the firm's 2,300 clients have jumped ship; the top clients are gone, and parts of the company have been sold off. About 5,000 of the 26,000 U.S. employees remain...
...Enron Task Force at the Justice Department to bore in on the energy-trading company. Prosecutors want to prove that former bosses Lay and Jeff Skilling and other executives touted Enron's stock when they knew the company was in a free fall--a violation of securities law. "This [verdict] can only help us," said Leslie Caldwell, chief of the task force. "We are going to get to the bottom of the Enron debacle...
Neither will Anderson's loyal employees, sometimes referred to as Androids. "The government needed a guilty verdict for public opinion," says seven-year veteran Todd Cimino. "How else can they explain destroying an 89-year-old company? I'm here to support the company's values and its legacy." It's one that now looks for ever tarnished. --With reporting by Deborah Fowler/Houston