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...lawsuit Illingworth referred to was filed by the famed civil rights activist for compensation from the group for the use of her name in the title of the song “Rosa Parks,” which was not about her. The case was dismissed in November...
...would pass the criticism on to other fares. "They're damaging the country, but I won't waver," a resolute Thaksin assured his undoubtedly alarmed audience. The leader's latest revelations came less than a month after it was discovered that his government has been investigating bank accounts of activist groups and journalists who have been critical of the Prime Minister, though far more openly than their smear-from-the-backseat sympathizers. (The probes were supposedly prompted by an anonymous tip to the Antimoney Laundering Office that the journalists were members of a criminal organization.) As far as a fifth...
...hate. Last week, a mob stripped and then beat a Hindu woman to death for protecting her Muslim friend; another mob fatally stabbed a Muslim man for having married a Hindu. "These people always take our women as one of their wives to beget Muslim children," says one activist for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the extreme Hindu movement linked with India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...
...countries, but the effect on Third World nations might be even more dramatic. Could a developing country stand up to a timber giant wanting to clear-cut the rain forest? A multinational retailer flouting labor laws? Says Mary Bottari, of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a liberal activist group: "The mere threat of a vast damage award could make poorer nations concede before the fight...
...term in a presidential election widely regarded as rigged, it's back to business as usual in Zimbabwe. Opposition leader and presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was formally charged with treason for allegedly plotting to assassinate Mugabe, another white farmer was killed by marauders, the son of a human-rights activist was beaten, and youth militia went on a rampage against supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Tsvangirai, the third MDC official to be arraigned on the treason charge, was released on bail and had to surrender his passport. "It was expected," he told TIME. "So much for reconciliation...