While it is always difficult to predict what will happen in Myanmar, analysts said the government could find Ms. Suu Kyi guilty but offer a more lenient sentence to curry local favor, and possibly allow her to remain in her lakeside residence while extending her house arrest.

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It is always difficult to predict what the Supreme Court will do, and almost everyone agrees this is a close case. (The two federal courts to hear it so far have split, with Clinton winning at the trial level and Jones on appeal.) But there are good reasons to believe that the court may be reluctant to allow Jones' suit to go forward.

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But it has always been notoriously difficult to predict how a judge will behave once he or she gets on to the Supreme Court.

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