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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Prosecutors trying Charles Allen McCoy Jr. for a string of sniper shootings in the greater Columbus area reminded jurors Thursday of the effect those shootings had one their own lives. "The choice of driving routes drastically changed for many drivers here in central Ohio," Franklin County First Assistant Prosecutor Ed Morgan told jurors during his opening statement in McCoy's capital murder trial. "The evidence will show that this change in driving routes was due in large part because someone in possession of a 9 mm Beretta pistol was choosing not to fire at a range target, but...

Legal rhetoric is all the rage among the opponents of Israel's air raid against an Islamic Jihad training base in Syria. Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Harari was first off the mark, labelling the destruction of the facility a "challenge to international law." He was followed by Damascus University law professor Mohammed Shukri who -- echoing British journalist and perennial Israel critic Robert Fisk -- dubbed the attack "an act of war." The Security Council has likewise worked hard to defend the edifice of law on which it imagines itself to rest. France's United Nations Ambassador, Jean-Marc de La Sablière, called...