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...help, but before they could respond, the thug had set Gaschler's backpack ablaze, too, he says. "My friends couldn't intervene as there were eight or nine of them," he told Time. One friend did manage to call the police, who arrived too late to make an arrest. The next day, an 18-year-old man named Robin Grab was charged with inflicting bodily harm based on Gaschler's description...
...seems rattled. In an appearance on Russian TV last week, he warned of "clan struggles" that could plague the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, after its crucial elections on Dec. 7. Putin's nervousness is strange, because his popularity has skyrocketed to 82% since the October arrest of oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky - the Russian public loves it when a billionaire gets his comeuppance. They are delighted too by the assault on Khodorkovsky's company, Yukos - last week Sibneft, another major Russian oil firm, announced that its merger with Yukos was on hold. So why is Putin anxious...
...dozen cases have been filed against firms doing business in developing countries, although to date no judgments have been awarded. Corporations doing business in Burma have come under particular pressure because of protests by the country's Nobel prizewinning opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest. Most U.S. companies heeded her call in the 1990s to sever ties with Burma because foreign investment lends legitimacy and economic support to the junta. In 1997, Congress outlawed all new U.S. investment there, and President Bush imposed further sanctions this summer. Many European companies have also pulled out, including...
...They weren’t particularly seeking to get arrested,” Hayden said. “They were targeted for arrest and I think the charges will be dropped...
Jordan Bar Am ’04, Anne G. Beckett ’04 and Rachel S. Bloomekatz ’04 were arrested Friday afternoon and charged with unlawful assembly, according to the Miami-Dade County Police. A police spokesperson said that Beckett was also charged with resisting arrest without violence...