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...Harvard Law School student was arrested on Jan. 24 after he allegedly threatened Boston Police Department officers and resisted arrest. Charles C. Simpkins, a third-year law student has been charged with two counts, including disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to Jake Wark, press secretary for the Suffolk County District Attorney. According to the police report, Simpkins drunkenly stumbled out of a bar in Boston’s Theater District and entered a parked BPD cruiser. Simpkins told officers, “Give me a (expletive) ride, I work for the district attorney’s office...
...both Urban’s case and a related one— requires that prosecutors offer explicit proof that a defendant was aware of a victim’s inability to consent. Urban has been granted a new trial, although the date has yet to be set, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney, according to the AP. Urban, who allegedly committed the crime after a night of drinking with his friends, was initially sentenced to four to six years in prison. Since 2006, he has been out on bail, having served two years...
Even as a teenager, she kept her confidences. "Andrea would not let people get close enough," says Marlene Wark, her only good friend through Milby High School in southeast Houston. "She was prickly that way. She minded her own business and expected you to mind your own business." She was the youngest of five. Her parents, determined to vary the children's interests, would rouse them from bed at 5:30 a.m. to swim in the cold pool at the YMCA. The family had one of the largest paper routes in Houston, making deliveries in their mother Jutta's aqua...
With Noah still in diapers, Andrea was pregnant again in 1995. She gave up swimming and jogging. She saw less of her friends. "That was her choice," says her friend Marlene Wark, who lost touch with her old chum after Noah's birth. "Andrea is not a cream puff. She never struck me as the type who rolled over." Wark had seen her friendship lapse with Andrea before. In college they stopped talking for a year until Andrea warmed up again, without ever explaining what had miffed her. Andrea later told another friend that, at the time, she might have...
...Wesley Wark, a terrorism expert at the University of Toronto, says he doesn?t see a direct connection to Canada?s military role in Afghanistan. ?I don't think it is especially because of what we're doing at the moment, but more because of a sense that Canada is part of that Western camp and is equally complicit with the United States and others in what these people regard as a generalized assault on the values and security of Muslims and Islam in general.? However, he added, ?The connection that has to be worrying is that if Afghanistan...