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...WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR] Most MiniDV camcorders come with an optical zoom of at least 10x, but serious shooters should aim...
...African leaders sought to bolster international investment on the continent by implementing a peer-review system to monitor economic reform and good governance. Meeting in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, representatives of 19 countries agreed on eight draft codes of conduct to be monitored by an independent African body. The aim is to ensure Africa keeps its side of the deal to attract some $64 billion a year under a proposed "Marshall Plan" for Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD...
...motive is a puzzle. Informers don't seem to have been the target; Police Service Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan said none were named in the missing documents. Nor was the aim likely to be the destruction of incriminating documents: a senior police source said duplicates of all the papers are still in safekeeping. The military passes used to enter the building and the English accent of one burglar fueled suspicions that the team worked for a shadowy British army unit that is already accused of breaking the law as part of its counterterrorism operations. Another theory suggests that former police...
...critics, of course, told only half the story. What they failed to mention is that the individual in question had played a much smaller role in the crime than one of his co-defendants, who copped a plea and was charged with a misdemeanor. Pickering’s aim was not to defend cross burning, but to express concern for the apparent injustice of sending a lesser criminal to prison for seven and a half years while the ringleader got off with no jail time at all. In the end, Pickering sentenced the man to 27 months in prison, saying...
...counseling Annan on the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut worldwide poverty in half by 2015. The plan includes increasing access to health care, primary education, drinkable water and housing and seeks to reverse the spread of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa...