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- Extemporaneous Speech Topics: 7 Things To Remember For An Extemporaneous Speech
- The secret of successful public speaking and speech writing is using one central idea. You can talk about many speech topics, but always refer back to - reinforce - that theme or a thesis. It's the only way the audience will remember your message. Capture the central idea of your...
- White papers 2007-01-17
- Madoff Faces 150 Year Sentence
- Alleged $50 billion con man investor Bernie Madoff is expected to plead guilty to 11 felony charges at a Manhattan federal court and could receive a 150 year jail sentence. Randall Pinkston reports.
- Videos 2009-03-10
- Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years
- Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years for being the mastermind of a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Madoff expressed regret before he received the maximum sentence for his crimes.
- Videos 2009-06-29
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- Hacker with Asperger's syndrome gets reduced sentence
- Asperger's syndrome saved a Los Angeles hacker from a longer prison sentence, it was reported today, bringing scant hope to self-confessed British hacker Gary McKinnon pictured, who faces extradition to the US on hacking charges. Viachelav Berkovich, an illegal Russian immigrant and Asperger's sufferer, received a 55-month sentence for his part...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Aghajari complains jail sentence almost worse than death
- TEHRAN AFP ? Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari, sentenced to five years in jail for insulting Islam, has complained that a portion of his sentence is almost as bad as the death sentence initially imposed on him, press reports said. Aside from being sentenced to a five-year jail term, two...
- Research articles 2004-07-24
- Yemen confirms one death sentence, commutes another over USS Cole
- SANAA AFP — A Sanaa appeals court upheld one death sentence against an Al-Qaeda militant and commuted another to 15 years in prison for the 2000 bombing of the US Navy destroyer Cole in Yemen. The court, presided over by Judge Said al-Qataa, confirmed the death sentence pronounced by...
- Research articles 2005-02-26
- US appeals 'millennium bomber' 22-year sentence
- WASHINGTON AFP — The 22-year sentence of Al-Qaeda "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam will be appealed as too small for the crime, the US Justice Department said. "We believe his actions warrant a sentence above 22 years, and that the district judge erred in imposing the sentence," US Attorney John...
- Research articles 2005-08-26
- Iraq appeals court upholds Saddam death sentence
- BAGHDAD AFP — A panel of Iraqi judges has upheld the death sentence passed against Saddam Hussein, a spokesman for the court said, in a decision that could see the ousted dictator hanged within 30 days. "The appeals court has ratified the sentence of the execution of Saddam," Judge Raed...
- Research articles 2006-12-26
- Sagent Corrects Wording in First Graph, Second Sentence and Corrects First Sentence Under Availability Header
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CORRECTION...by Sagent Technology In BW2055 (CA-SAGENT-TECHNOLOGY)SGNT Sagent and NetAcumen Deliver Powerful Analytic Solution for Click-Stream Analysis, the first graph, second sentence should read xxx Implemented onsite this analytic solution is designed to enable companies... (sted This analytic solution is designed to enable companies...). ...
- Research articles 2000-07-07
- The Best Sentence I Read Today
- In Harper's May issue Yohannes Edemariam reports on the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethopia. It's not pretty. I always admire journalists who try impossible feats like describing the poverty in Ethopia to a western reading audience. In her article the sentence below popped out. Awesome writing. Three "by the time"...
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms career-criminal sentence
- In deciding whether to impose a mandatory minimum sentence under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act, a judge can examine a Maryland application for statement of charges to determine whether a defendant's previous offenses were violent crimes, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held.The law specifies a mandatory...
- Research articles 2006-04-04
- 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules judge was wrong to suspend sentence
- A U.S. district judge was wrong to suspend a woman's two-year prison sentence, a federal appellate court has ruled. A U.S. district judge was wrong to suspend a woman's two-year prison sentence, a federal appellate court has ruled.
- Research articles 2008-02-07
- Five Israelis start jail sentence for refusing to serve in the army
- JERUSALEM AFP ? Five Israeli soldiers began a year-long jail sentence for refusing to serve in the Israeli army on account of its occupation of the Palestinian territories, refusenik support group Yesh Gvul said. The five, all aged around 20, began their sentence on Wednesday afternoon at "prison six",...
- Research articles 2004-01-07
- Bribery jail sentence upheld for former Japanese construction minister
- TOKYO, AFP ? The Tokyo High Court rejected an appeal against a jail sentence for a former cabinet minister convicted of bribery, but reduced the term by two months after he donated money to charity. Former construction minister Eiichi Nakao, 73, who entered the court in a wheelchair, bowed...
- Research articles 2003-11-21
- Iranian dissident refuses to appeal new death sentence
- TEHRAN AFP ? Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari has again refused to appeal against a death sentence for blasphemy which was reconfirmed by a provincial court, his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said. "He told me yesterday that he refused to lodge an appeal and forbade me to do it on his...
- Research articles 2004-05-04
- Iran's judiciary rushes to play down renewed death sentence on dissident
- TEHRAN AFP ? Iran's powerful hardline judiciary hastened to play down a provincial judge's confirmation of a death sentence for blasphemy on dissident academic Hashem Aghajari, saying the verdict was not final. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Elham, quoted by the student news agency ISNA, said it was still up to...
- Research articles 2004-05-04
- Iran death sentence upheld, torture banned in mixed signals
- TEHRAN AFP ? An Iranian court has renewed the death sentence on dissident academic Hashem Aghajari just as the country's hardline judiciary is showing signs of softening, sending mixed signals amid a revived debate on human rights and political prisoners. A day after the court reimposed the death sentence...
- Research articles 2004-05-04
- Rwandan ex-president to appeal conviction, 15-year jail sentence
- KIGALI AFP ? Rwandan former President Pasteur Bizimungu will appeal his conviction and 15-year jail sentence handed down by a Kigali court this week for embezzlement, inciting racial animosity and criminal association, his lawyer told the independent Hirondelle news agency. "We are demanding a full acquittal," said the lawyer,...
- Research articles 2004-06-10
- UN court slashes sentence for Bosnian Croat general Blaskic
- THE HAGUE AFP ? The appeals chamber of the United Nations war crimes court slashed the sentence of Bosnian Croat general Tihomir Blaskic to nine years from 45 years and cleared him of the majority of the charges against him. Blaskic, the wartime commander of Croatian forces in central...
- Research articles 2004-07-29
- Libertines' ex-frontman gets suspended sentence for knife offence
- LONDON AFP ? Pete Doherty, former frontman of the acclaimed British rock group the Libertines, escaped jail when he was given a four-month suspended sentence for possession of a switchblade knife. Doherty, 25, who has been battling drug addiction, had admitted in magistrates court in east London to having...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
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