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...power. But Zuma has missed other chances to pursue the guilty. In May, Transport Minister S'bu Ndebele was found to have accepted a $125,000 Mercedes from a road-construction group that had more than $50 million in contracts with the department. Though Ndebele handed the car back, along with two cows, Zuma told him he had no need to. In June, an auditor general's report accused 2,000 senior civil servants of rigging contracts worth $75 million to themselves or relatives between 2005 and 2007. Little action has resulted...
...wherever they end up, the two agree that their relationship will be the foundation of any choices that come along down the line...
Peter Machinist, a signatory of the letter and professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, said that libraries are one of the three major components of the University, along with students and faculty...
...have a [different] viewpoint [from the U.S.'s] in terms of how their countries should develop." Hizballah and Hamas would have to transform themselves to gain U.S. recognition, but while Bush's goal was to smash the two movements, Obama's seems to be to nudge that transformation along...
...David sits in the center of a predominantly Arab neighborhood, Silwan. Many people originally worked on the site as laborers, but the 40,000 Arab residents of Silwan have grown to resent the City of David and the few hundred Jewish settlers who have since moved into the neighborhood along with their armed guards. Palestinian religious authorities have complained that the Israeli archaeological digs are insensitive to the relics of earlier Islamic eras and worry about possible damage to the al-Aqsa Mosque, which rises just above Silwan on the Temple Mount. Proclaimed as the third holiest site in Islam...