For more than two months, the trial of Brooke Astor's son has cast a spotlight on how decisions to change wills, especially those made in the twilight of life, can be subject to bitter fights and even criminal charges.
The artist Shepard Fairey, whose 2008 poster of Barack Obama became an optimistic symbol of the last presidential campaign before spawning a bitter copyright battle with criminal overtones, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan on Friday to two years of probation and fined $25,000 for tampering with evidence in the case.
BAGHDAD Iraqis on Friday reacted with disbelief, anger and bitter resignation to news that criminal charges in the United States had been dismissed against Blackwater security guards who opened fire on unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007 in a fusillade that left 17 dead.
There is, in the end, a great ethical wisdom in insisting that the criminal dead, that your bitterest enemy, be buried, too; for in doing so, you are insisting that the criminal, however heinous, is precisely not a "monster".
Expulsion will be a blow to his prestige and a bitter reminder that he is a convicted criminal.
Los Rojos and Guerreros Unidos are said to be fighting a bitter turf war over who controls lucrative criminal activities in the area such as kidnappings, extortion, and drug trafficking.
Late in life, Mr. Link became embroiled in a bitter divorce battle that resulted in civil and criminal charges against his wife, Conchita, who is now in prison.
When we lock up minors in adult prisons the inevitable focus of incarceration becomes that of survival and of bitter resentment and retaliation for mistreatment by the criminal justice system.
But as he tries to appease both bitter cops and protesters enraged at a broken criminal justice system, the mayor is discovering that just having officers with "counter terrorism" on their uniforms around demonstrations is source of tension.
The competition for territory was bitter among the distributors, often infiltrated by professional criminals.
