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...Boston University freshman died Wednesday morning after a car struck her on Memorial Drive near the Hyatt Regency Hotel the previous evening. The 17-year-old victim, Beatriz Ponce, was returning from an intramural soccer game at around 11:30 p.m. that Tuesday. As she was crossing Memorial Drive towards the Hyatt—a hotel that acts as a dorm for many Boston University (BU) freshmen—a Ford Focus hit her where the road intersects Amesbury Street. The 31-year-old driver of the car, Maurizio Aragona, had the right of way and has not been charged...
...Kelleher was ultimately found guilty of assault and battery but not with “intent to intimidate”—Mass. state law’s way of describing a crime motivated by hate. And the case against a second man, who reportedly told the victim that, “We’ll follow you all the way back to your apartment, you fucking Jewish faggot,” was dropped, at the urging of the prosecutor...
Memories of the incident—and of the victim, Galo Garcia III ’05—have faded, but those students and observers close to the trial wonder how a case with such impetus fizzled so quickly...
...Playing the Victim in Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson is a target of a federal corruption investigation and not welcome in his own party. But with the backing of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, he may just win reelection
...Jorge Julio Lopez, 77, a former torture victim and retired construction worker, was reported missing from his home on the last day of a trial in which he'd testified against his torturer, former police commissioner Miguel Etchecolatz, who ran clandestine detention centers during the dictatorship. His apparent abduction has sent a chill down the spines of many Argentines, unsettled by memories of the state of terror imposed by the military in the 1970s. Lopez's disappearance "has touched a sensitive nerve in society," said an editorial in Clarin, Argentina's largest-selling newspaper. "It revives fears...