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...Regardless, the new-style pro-democracy groups have had difficulty making even the smallest political change inside Vietnam. Association with any overseas group - Hanoi still classifies most as terrorist organizations - is grounds for arrest; several of the Vietnamese activists put on trial this year had their links to overseas groups like Viet Tan used as evidence against them. "They are on the right side, advocating non-violent political change, but are they doing good?" asks Carl Thayer, a veteran Vietnam analyst who lectures at Australia's National Defence University. "Any action like that provokes repression. The key leaders...
...that he has nothing left to prove, that he might be the greatest hitter of all time, in spite of the steroid allegations. And that he's made more than enough money to pay his legal bills. No, Bonds knows that if he just stepped aside and fought his trial, too many people, like commissioner Bud Selig, would rejoice. So he'll try to stay...
...team that takes the Bonds bait. It's bad enough we'll have to suffer through his trial, unless he takes an unexpected plea. Do we also want to see him sitting in a San Francisco courtroom by day, and catching a charter to a game by night, a la Kobe Bryant during his 2004 rape case? (The charges against Bryant were later dismissed.) Of course not. And if that kind of spectacle drives fans crazy, imagine how it could destroy a clubhouse. Even for a dreadful team like the Devil Rays, that's a lot to lose...
...most observers say that to topple her, the anti-Hillary vote must rally around one of her rivals. Obama took the first shot, telling the Washington Post, "If John wants to make the comparison between the work I did as a community organizer ... to him working as a trial lawyer making millions of dollars, I'm happy to have that discussion." Edwards fired back: "I believe there's a fight in front of us ... And that means you've got to have somebody who will fight...
...mayor be unraveled by a handpicked police chief facing criminal conspiracy charges? Federal prosecutors unsealed the Kerik indictment at a moment when Giuliani, while leading in the national Republican nomination polls, still trails Mitt Romney in most of the early-primary states. If the Kerik case goes to trial, it will probably do so next year, when Republicans would prefer that any critical light be directed at the Democratic rival...