"Serious readers should be reading [Scott] Turow, because he is not just one of our best crime novelists; he is also one of our better novelists," declared writer/critic Wendy Lesser...
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Good news for fans of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent": Rusty Sabich is back on the jobTurow, speaking to The Associated Press on Saturday at BookExpo America, said he has written about one-quarte...
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The parents of three Guilford College football players charged with ethnic intimidation defended their sons Friday, nearly a week after an on-campus fight between the players and three Palestinian ...
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Madrid (dpa) - Suspects in the 2004 Madrid bombings trial who were
on hunger strike have abandoned their protest, their lawyers said
Monday in the Spanish capital.
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Bangkok (dpa) - Thailand's Supreme Court of Tuesday agree to
proceed with a trial against deposed prime minister Thaksin
Shinawatra and his wife Potjaman for alleged involve...
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A police officer pleaded not guilty Friday to killing his pregnant girlfriend, whose corpse was found in a park and whose toddler son gave investigators some of their strongest clues.Bobby Cutts Jr...
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Palma/Lisbon (dpa) - Rogerio Alves, one of the Portuguese lawyers
for the parents of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, on
Thursday defended the "sacred" right of all...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
JUSTICE IN IRAQ (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
Conflicts of interest are bad. Private conflicts of interest
that damage the national in...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
GUIDELINES TO PREVENT NEWS BIAS (The Japan Times, an
English-language daily)
The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association h...
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Forget about "The Godfather," prosecutors urged jurors at the start of Chicago's biggest mob trial in years. It sounded simple enough, until the dialogue started with a stream of nicknames and susp...
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Jurors in Chicago's biggest mob trial in years began deliberating the fate of five defendants Tuesday in a case described by defense attorneys as built on the testimony of "a walking piece of decep...
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