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1. The government scored a partial victory Friday in the death penalty trial of Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. The judge accepted a compromise which allows prosecutors to present new witnesses about aviation security.
2. A top commander in Iraq says the US wants to have Iraqi security forces in control of 3/4 of the country by summer. The announcement comes on the heels of Thursday's launch of operation Swarmer targeting insurgents.
3. The attorney for Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown says the copyright infringement case against his client is in tatters. In closing arguments in London Friday, he said it was clear Brown’s best-selling thriller had not copied from work from 1982’s the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
4. Demonstrators in New York protested comments by the chairman of the St. Patrick's Day parade Friday, after he compared gay Irish Americans to neo-Nazis and prostitutes. But the party went on, and so did the parade, with 150 thousand marchers and up to 2 million spectators.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. come on the heels of :
to happen very soon after something:
e.g. For Walter, disaster followed hard on the heels of his initial success.
2. infringement :N-COUNT,jockey;jockeys
the behavior of doing something that is against a law or someone's legal rights
e.g. Even minor infringements of the law will be severely punished.
3. in tatters :
badly damaged or completely spoiled:
e.g. After the newspaper story appeared his reputation was in tatters.
4. thriller :noun [C]
a book, play or film which has an exciting story, often about solving a crime:
e.g. It's described here as a taut, psychological thriller.
5. neo- : prefix
new or recent, or in a modern form:
6. prostitute :noun [C]
a person who has sex with someone for money
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