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Maggie Anthony, an interior decorator from Nashville, appears surprisingly calm and confident for a U.S. mother about to watch her son be tried for murder in Nicaragua. "I feel good about it; I know he is innocent," says Anthony, referring to the Jan. 26 trial that could put her son, Eric Volz, behind bars for the next 30 years. Volz, a 24-year- old real estate agent and publisher of a tourism and fashion magazine called El Puente (The Bridge), is charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend, Doris Ivania Jimenez, a beautiful young Nicaraguan woman who was found raped...
...Clinton question, of course, looms large. Even during Clinton's impeachment trial, African-Americans, both in Congress and in the general public, never wavered from their strong backing of the man whom author Toni Morrison dubbed the country's "first black President." And it's not just that Bill Clinton would be campaigning for his wife. Two years ago, Democratic pollster Mark Mellman found in a focus group of 10 black women that eight named Hillary Clinton as their political hero. "I've got the biggest picture of one person in my office, a picture of myself and Hillary Clinton...
...sodomized with a cane and verbally abused by men identified in an official investigation as police officers, is believed to have been disseminated by those same officers in a bid to humiliate the victim and intimidate his colleagues. On the recording, one of two officers due to stand trial in March over the incident is heard telling the victim, "Everybody in the parking lot will see this tomorrow...
...Cairo newspaper and were circulated by bloggers. El Kebir, whose father suffered a heart attack when he saw the images, was convinced to come forward by human rights groups and activists. The two officers he accused of leading the attack were detained by the authorities and are set for trial in March. But Emad El Kebir himself was jailed this month after being convicted for resisting the authorities - police accused him of wielding a broken bottle and injuring an officer. His lawyers fear for his fate in prison, where he is serving a three-month sentence...
...simply "A," a former staffer in the office of Israeli President Moshe Katsav, known to the nation through press photographs depicting her shapely figure and streaky blonde hair, yet keeping her face hidden. That's because the anonymous Ms. "A" looks set to be the victim in a rape trial, in which - if it goes ahead - the defendant will be the president himself...