Wednesday,  May 16, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 307 • 31 of 36 •  Other Editions

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national justice -- Mladic is the last suspect from the Bosnian war to go on trial here.
• Mladic, in a suit and tie and looking healthier than at previous pretrial hearings, gave a thumbs-up and clapped to supporters in the court's public gallery as the trial got under way Wednesday. He occasionally wrote notes and showed no emotion as prosecutors began outlining his alleged crimes.
• Munira Subasic, who lost 22 family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, was among a group of relatives of war dead in the courtroom's public gallery to face Mladic.
• The 65-year-old said she wanted to look him in the eye "and ask him if he will repent for what he did."
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SPIN METER: Never mind: GOP also-rans make nice, airbrush their anti-Romney scripts

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Remember Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney a liar? Michele Bachmann saying Romney's unelectable? Rick Santorum calling Romney "the worst Republican in the country" to run against Obama?
• They're hoping you don't. And acting like it never happened (even though most of their words are just clicks away online.)
• One by one -- with the exception of holdout Ron Paul -- the GOP also-rans have coughed up endorsements of their onetime rival. And as they do, they're pulling rhetorical backflips to distance themselves from their former harsh assessments of Romney.
• Don't try this at home, folks. It takes a professional politician to pull it off with a straight face.
• A sampling of the also-rans' anti-Romney rhetoric when they were candidates and their obligatory niceness after endorsing Romney.
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Iran tough stance in nuclear talks reflects 'political capital' in standoff

• TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel. But embedded in the messages are meanings that reach beyond Tehran's talks with world powers.

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