Even the Economist got it wrong. 

Now, I don't know it, but I seriously doubt Mr Zimmerman needed to shoot Mr Martin, even though Mr Martin attacked him. And I seriously doubt Mr Martin would have been shot if he hadn't been a black kid. In my heart of hearts, I too think Mr Zimmerman did something terribly wrong.

Nope. Sorry. Needed to shoot? We'd never know if we had a thousand years. But I'd have shot him if he was black, white to polka dot. Shot him dead. And so would you. You would have feared for your life.

It may be that the very concepts of mind and matter are fundamentally misleading us. But this doesn’t entitle religious people to imagine that all their ideas about miraculous books, virgin births, and saviors ushering in the end of the world are remotely plausible.

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The verdict garnered intense international media attention with half a dozen TV satellite trucks taking positions outside the courthouse. The verdict comes on the heels of Berlusconi’s tax-fraud conviction, which along with a four-year prison sentence and five-year ban on public office, have been upheld on a first appeal.