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MIKE NOVA'S STARRED ITEMS Russian judge rejects challenge against dead lawyer's trial via Russia News Headlines - Yahoo! News on 3/22/13 MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court-appointed defense lawyer tried to scuttle the posthumous trial of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky on Friday, saying the state had no right to prosecute a dead man without the consent of his family. But the judge rejected the lawyer's challenge, paving the way for a trial that is seen by President Vladimir Putin's critics as politically motivated and intended to discredit fraud accusations made by Magnitsky, who died in jail in 2009. ... Opinionator | Disunion: Walt Whitman's Boss via NYT > Opinion by By RONALD S. CODDINGTON on 3/22/13 The story of Lyman Hapgood, a Boston abolitionist who gave the poet his first job in the capital. Russia' Putin Meets With New Chinese Leader via Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty by RFE/RL on 3/21/13 Xi J