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Will R&B's self-described Pied Piper finally get his day in court? Looks like it can go either way. R. Kelly, whose sexually charged lyrics are occasionally redeemed with forays into gospel music, is scheduled to stand trial here Friday on charges he videotaped himself having sex with a female whom the authorities say he knew was at least 13 years old. The case has dragged on since 2002, for often bizarre reasons: One time, because Kelly needed an appendectomy. Another time, the presiding judge broke several bones while climbing a ladder. One of the case's lead...
Such disdain for the democratic process raises a question: why bother with elections at all? Other African tyrannies have dispensed with the awkward trial of popular votes altogether, and ruled as unapologetic autocracies. So why the need for a veneer of respectability, however thin, in Zimbabwe? The answer lies in the psychology of Mugabe and his fellow liberation leaders, many of whom came from a background of elite academia. Mugabe himself has seven degrees, most of them earned during the 11 years he spent in prison when the country was called Rhodesia...
When a former employee of Palfrey's, Brandy Britton, hanged herself before going to trial, Palfrey told the press, "I guess I'm made of something that Brandy Britton wasn't made...
Palfrey's trial, which concluded in mid-April with a conviction, is one of very few such cases prosecuted in the federal courts. Most prostitution violations are dealt with at the state or municipal level, and attract little publicity. In the Palfrey case, prosecutors obliged a string of obviously embarrassed clients and employees of the escort service to appear on the witness stand and testify under oath. Nearly all testified that they had engaged in sexual acts in exchange for money, a version of events that contradicted Palfrey's claims that she had been running a high-end sexual fantasy...
...rare taste of the other side. Gary Robb was not among them. "I could have made a dash for it," jokes the burly native of northeast England, who has lived in Turkish Cyprus since 1997. Had he done so, he'd probably now be in an English prison awaiting trial on the drugs charges he ducked 10 years ago, when he fled to this sunny but troubled bolt-hole in the eastern Mediterranean...