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...Before they embarked on Western Avenue, Pring-Wilson’s lawyer asked the jury to remember the conditions on the early morning of April...
...says. “As soon as I would get on the ice, whistles would blow and I had to leave.”However, her tour of the U.S. with her home team landed her a spot at the Berkshire School in western Massachusetts where she sharpened her skills for two years in the competitive New England Prep School league. Now settling into her first year at Harvard, Ryabkina hopes to use her speed and knack for finding the back of the net to help the Crimson while adjusting to a more team-oriented style of play...
...According to his defense attorneys, Pring-Wilson acted in self-defense when he stabbed Colono five times in 70 seconds outside a Western Avenue pizza parlor in 2003. Pring-Wilson was convicted and sentenced to six to eight years in prison...
...Certainly the Moroccan government has been discomfited by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón's decision last Tuesday to investigate several Moroccans, including a few high-ranking officials, for alleged atrocities against the North African Sahawari people between 1976 and 1987 after Spain withdrew from its former colony of Western Sahara. The fact that the Spanish monarch's visit to Melilla on Tuesday coincides with the anniversary of the Green March - the day in 1975 when 350,000 Moroccans poured into Western Sahara to claim the region - only adds to the friction...
...Located on the coast of western North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla have been part of Spain for more than four hundred years. But Morocco views the two cities as occupied territories - a last, insulting bastion of Spanish colonialism. Much as any gesture of British sovereignty in Gibraltar raises Spanish hackles, so do assertions of Spanish identity in North Africa irritate the Moroccans. Five years ago, for example, the two countries came to the brink of war when a band of Moroccan soldiers raised their national flag on a tiny, uninhabited island called Perejil that Spain considers its territory...