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...Middlesex County district attorney’s office has garnered criticism for seeking a first-degree murder conviction against Pring-Wilson instead of lesser charges of second-degree murder or manslaughter...
...defense of them. No, Kerry won the debate on Bush's favorite intangible: the appearance of strength. The President, who was so comfortable through three debates against Al Gore, appeared "annoyed," as Fox News's Brit Hume put it. Actually, it was worse than that: Bush seemed the lesser man. Kerry stood ramrod straight and preternaturally calm. Bush squirmed and grimaced behind his lectern. When he leaned down and in to make a point, he appeared to be ducking for cover. As the debate wore on, his pauses lengthened--several times he had that lost look on his face...
...criminal defense attorney Yale Galanter, who has been tracking the Pring-Wilson trial for CourtTV, said Quinlan would likely give jurors the option of convicting Pring-Wilson on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter—which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years...
...seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, after she failed her exams at the Sorbonne in Paris; of heart and lung failure; in Normandy, France. Born Françoise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. She also wrote 30 lesser known novels as well as short stories, plays and movie screenplays...
...eager to ignore these things, Guy and her Spanish roommate Mia (Penelope Cruz) won’t allow her to, by constantly moping and debating over the most recent news reports and, ultimately, by leaving her to join the Republican Army in Spain. Guy and, to a lesser degree, Mia obviously (far too obviously) represent the deluded idealism of the enraged youth just itching to make a difference...