Mr. Vilar, an investment adviser, was a major donor to art institutions before market losses led him, prosecutors asserted, to steal money from his investment clients.
Because of his liberal politics, I expected to hear a liberation theology, so I was surprised when he offered a simple prosperity Gospel message asserting, to paraphrase him, that God does not desire poverty for anyone, and that those who have faith can lift themselves from poverty.
Goodluck Jonathan, who suddenly came to power after Mr Yar'Adua's death, has been tied up with next year's election.Mr Compaoré's real democracy test will come in 2015, when he reaches the end of the two terms stipulated by a constitutional amendment in 2000 and craftily asserted by him to have begun only with his election in 2005.
The offer, he asserted, required him to withdraw from public life, declining all interview requests and offers to write articles or books.
There he fared badly, working with two successive voice teachers who, he asserted, caused him to lose his upper register.
Defendant Philip Rosedale moves to dismiss all claims asserted against him for lack of personal jurisdiction.
She delivered a painstaking refutation of the authenticity of "Testimony," the 1979 memoirs that Solomon Volkov asserts Shostakovich dictated to him during many meetings.
How dare these virtual strangers assert a connection to him and his business?
The Pakistani intelligence service was a key player in the attack, Mr. Headley asserts, directing him to conduct critical pre-attack surveillance and even adding a Jewish community center, where three of the Americans were killed, to the target list.
The students, he asserted, were bowing not to him but to their teachers, at his suggestion.
In a week honoring the sacrifice of America's warriors, President Trump appeared to claim that he visited Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day last year and asserted that veterans, thanks to him, no longer face long waits for medical care.
