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To: Grainne who wrote (95867)2/11/2005 10:15:57 AM
From: Bill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Once in a while, GREAT news comes along which
makes America loving people like me go "Yippie"!!!

cnn.com

Civil rights attorney convicted in terror trial
Thursday, February 10, 2005 P

NEW YORK (AP) -- A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients -- a radical Egyptian sheik -- to his terrorist disciples on the outside.

The jury had deliberated 13 days over the past month before convicting Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene.

Stewart faces up to 20 years in prison on charges that include conspiracy, giving material support to terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government...



To: Grainne who wrote (95867)2/11/2005 11:18:00 AM
From: Rambi  Respond to of 108807
 
Meant to recommend this writer if you haven't read her- nice antidote to depressing books. Haven Kimmel. Funny autobiography (Zippy) and a lovely book called The Solace of Leaving Early.



To: Grainne who wrote (95867)2/11/2005 7:50:26 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
I hope you are over your cold.

Boy, our favorite store Whole Foods has done well in the market this week!

We're going out to dinner tomorrow night to a restaurant that grows all their own seasonal foods in their own organic garden :-) It's a fun place. My daughter even went to their garden once for a field trip.