Sheik Sharif stepped into Somalia's messy politics in 2004, when he helped form a neighborhood court to try carjackers and kidnappers.

谢赫·谢里夫于2004年进入一盘散沙的索马里政界，他于那年帮助成立了一个社区法庭，以审判劫车者和诱拐者。

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Barry Schweid reported on foreign policy, the Supreme Court and national politics for The Associated Press in Washington for more than 50 years.

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Both of these books are works of history, and neither draws explicit parallels with court politics in the modern world.

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