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News Derrick Bell: November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011
Derrick Bell: November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011
Matthew Shames
October 6, 2011 12:34:12 pm

Derrick Bell, a leading legal scholar and the first tenured African-American professor at Harvard Law School , died Wednesday in New York of carcinoid cancer. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bell graduated from the University of Pittsburgh...

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News Trial of September 11 suspects opens in Spain
Trial of September 11 suspects opens in Spain
Matthew Shames
April 22, 2005 11:03:00 am

The trial of 24 suspected members of an al-Quaida cell in Spain began in Madrid Friday. Three of the suspects allegedly used Spain as a staging ground for the September 11, 2001 attacks against targets in...

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News Justices discuss criticism, spar over international law in rare joint interview
Justices discuss criticism, spar over international law in rare joint interview
Matthew Shames
April 22, 2005 10:40:00 am

Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen Breyer, and Antonin Scalia gave candid reactions to recent criticisms of the "activist" federal judiciary in a rare joint interview-cum-converation moderated by NBC's Tim Russert at the National Archives Thursday. O'Connor and Breyer agreed...

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News State courts group urges Congress to fund security improvements
State courts group urges Congress to fund security improvements
Matthew Shames
April 22, 2005 10:09:00 am

The National Center for State Courts has asked Congress to earmark 1-3 percent of new homeland security grants to states for use in improving security at courthouses. The request comes in the wake of recent incidents...

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News Gay marriage bill approved in Spanish lower house, denounced by Vatican
Gay marriage bill approved in Spanish lower house, denounced by Vatican
Matthew Shames
April 22, 2005 09:51:00 am

The lower house of the Spanish Parliament has approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriages, a measure sponsored by Spain's ruling Socialist Party. The bill, passed Thursday, now moves to the Senate [official website, in...

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News Yahoo complies with court order, releases e-mail of deceased Marine
Yahoo complies with court order, releases e-mail of deceased Marine
Matthew Shames
April 22, 2005 09:24:00 am

One day after a Michigan probate court ordered Yahoo! to release the contents of an e-mail account belonging to deceased Marine Justin Ellsworth , the company complied Thursday by delivering a CD of the private documents...

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News Second Iraq prison camp disturbance in two weeks triggered by inmate murder
Second Iraq prison camp disturbance in two weeks triggered by inmate murder
Matthew Shames
April 15, 2005 10:47:00 am

Twelve detainees were injured Thursday night when a fight broke out at the US Camp Bucca prison camp in southern Iraq triggered by the murder of an inmate. The US military confirmed the fight...

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News Serb war crimes defendants allowed to return home pending trial
Serb war crimes defendants allowed to return home pending trial
Matthew Shames
April 15, 2005 10:10:00 am

Prosecutors have dropped objections to the release of four high ranking Serbian officials ahead of their trial for war crimes, allowing them to return to Belgrade as early as today. The four include Milan Milutinovic, a former Serbian president...

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News UN officials cited in US oil-for-food criminal complaint
UN officials cited in US oil-for-food criminal complaint
Matthew Shames
April 15, 2005 09:55:00 am

Two high-ranking but unidentified United Nations officials have been cited in the criminal complaint released Thursday against South Korean businessman Tongsun Park for his involvement in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal . Park is accused of accepting...

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Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution

On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety took power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchmen and women had been executed by guillotine. Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

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On April 6, 1931, the nine "Scottsboro boys" were put on trial in Alabama on false charges of raping two white women during a freight train trip from Tennessee. Learn more about the trial of the Scottsboro boys.

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