There was a history instructor who, in a lecture on how the difficulty of delivering mail in the early days oftherepublic helped shape Federalist ideas, would drop his trousers to reveal patterned boxer shorts.
"What the United Kingdom must do is apply the diplomatic obligations ofthe (U.N.) Refugee Convention and let him leave with a safe conduct pass, " said Baltasar Garzon, a former Spanish judge who said he is working pro bono as coordinator of Assange's defense team, by e-mail from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.