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...three French journalists and four Spanish crew members of a jet Zoe's Ark had chartered to airlift 103 children it claimed were orphans from Darfur. Chadian police in the eastern city of Abéché moved in to stop the plane from departing on Oct. 25, amid charges the group was planning to sell the children to adopting parents in France. Since then, police and U.N. agency investigations have discovered most if not all the 103 children are not orphans nor from Darfur - but instead were taken from villages in Chad by what witnesses say were white...
...although he's always voted Liberal, he won't vote for Turnbull: "All he wants is to be Prime Minister with all his money." For that line he gets an arm around him, as does the 92-year-old woman who whispers, "Can we get rid of that bastard?" Amid the laughter, no one checks whether she means Turnbull or the P.M. "You're good at this, Bob," someone shouts. "Thought of running again yourself?" Hawke's heard this before. "Been there, done that," he says. "But no one's working harder for the cause, let me tell...
...empowered to not just yield advice but to make actual decisions about the issues we face. If these committees were taken more seriously, everyone would have a true and equal voice in the governance of our College, and not be relegated to providing advice that is often forgotten amid other administrative priorities. A distinct problem is that whenever a student, faculty member, or administrator advocates for using the predetermined processes and structures of the University, they are subject to criticism from the administration for preventing progress. An underlying sentiment exists that anyone trying to make a change is doing...
...that hardly matters. In Tunis, there are now entire new districts of office buildings, with signs announcing the recent arrival of multinationals like Pfizer, Ericsson and Siemens; in October Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer flew in to weigh new ventures in the country. Amid the pizza parlors, cappuccino bars and bowling alleys, realtors advertise million-dollar villas with pools and saunas, while shopping malls are jammed with Tunisians buying food and furniture imported from Europe. With the embrace of Western-style capitalism has come social change, too: the biggest TV hit this year was Star Academy Maghreb, a homegrown version...
...return for a video purporting to show a royal aide taking cocaine. Some accounts suggested that the video showed the royal engaged in a gay sex act with the aide; in tamer versions, the aide was said to have made claims about a gay sex act with the royal. Amid the welter of lurid allegations, it was easy to overlook the almost complete absence of verifiable facts. But one omission was glaring. Not one report named the aide or the supposed blue-blooded target of the alleged plot...