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...never accept the claim that an Iraqi woman was raped while Saddam is President. How could I walk with my head up?" SADDAM HUSSEIN, ousted Iraqi dictator, denying allegations that Kurdish women were raped in prison during his regime, at the opening of his second trial for crimes against humanity...
...cover the tax bill - and Young says the current debate is useful for bringing the issue to national attention. In France, Benoîte Taffin of the tax lobby group Contribuables Associés is less optimistic. She worries that the Finance Ministry may be just floating a trial balloon, and will now back away from even a "timid" change. As for Italy, the Prodi campaign promise to reinstate inheritance tax has so far not become a reality. The fragile coalition government disagrees over whether or not to make the issue a priority, and, if so, at what level...
...that verdict was overturned last March by an appeals court that cited faulty jury instructions. (The trial judge didn't explain that Quattrone would have had to know what he was doing was wrong to be convicted.) With their case, and perhaps their will, weakened, prosecutors waved a white flag and agreed to let Quattrone off--no fine, no admission of guilt, no ban from the securities industry--as long as he stays out of trouble for one year...
...true end of a contentious business cycle, as the legal system shakes out how old laws will apply to new crimes. The Supreme Court's decision last year to overturn the conviction of accounting firm Arthur Andersen wasn't without precedent. (Nor was it helpful: after the initial trial, Andersen had collapsed and some 28,000 U.S. employees lost their jobs.) Similarly, Charles Keating, one of the biggest nabs in the 1980s savings and loan scandal, saw his conviction reversed nearly five years after going to prison. And after the late-'80s insider-trading Wall Street sweep that, among other...
...which may have contributed to the speedy course of injustice in Linyi. With his own legal counsel in jail, Chen was represented by two court-appointed lawyers. The trial lasted just two hours. Thursday's announcement of a four-year-and-three-month sentence surprised even those who expected little more than a sham trial; lawyers here agree that similar charges rarely elicit a jail sentence of more than a year. "Chen's case typifies how some local officials can take the law as a personal tool for revenge," says Teng Biao, a university lecturer who has been part...