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...sunny images and surrounding chatter should not obscure the gravity of the crime for which the three suspects are accused. Prosecutors say Kercher was sexually assaulted before being repeatedly stabbed and left to bleed to death in what may have been a two-hour-long, agonizing demise. The victim's parents have kept a dignified silence as they wait to see what the sometimes dysfunctional Italian justice system finds out about the case, in order to help them understand why the daughter they'd sent away for an enriching student experience abroad never made it home alive...
Olmert could go sooner, if the corruption and fraud allegations stick. The prime minister says that he is the innocent victim of "a police campaign" against him. But after a combative, two-hour grilling at his official Jerusalem residence on Friday, police investigators issued a statement claiming that Olmert was suspected of "serious fraud and other offenses." He was questioned about the allegedly double billing of charity organizations for his trips abroad as mayor of Jerusalem and trade and industries minister. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum, as well as charities helping physically and mentally handicapped children were among those that...
...would have been easy for Hooper to make The Tall Man a simple story of apparent injustice, to portray Doomadgee - with whose lawyers and family she spent a great deal of time - as a wholly likable victim and Hurley as a thug. Always, however, she favors nuance over cliché, context over judgment. The book's title is partly a reference to Hurley, a 2-m-tall career cop who had been decorated for bravery and eschewed comfortable postings for trouble spots like Palm Island, a former open-air Aboriginal jail where "the heat attacks like a swarm of insects...
Cambridge Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello told The Chronicle that the victim has since been released from the hospital...
Twain plainly thought war a foolish thing, and when, in Private History, he pulls his gun and kills a man riding through the woods, thinking him an enemy, we can feel for Twain and his young companions, standing there trembling in the darkness, wishing they could bring their victim back to life. After only two weeks' service, he resigned his commission. In his autobiography, Twain explains that he was "'incapacitated by fatigue' through persistent retreating...