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...subtle ways. Last year, Guillermo Valencia Cossio, chief government prosecutor for Medellín and the surrounding Antioquia state - and brother of Colombia's Justice Minister - was indicted for allegedly collaborating with a powerful drug baron. He was charged with conspiring with a drug baron and is under house arrest...
...housing market's sharp drop should start to benefit from the approval of a program to funnel $275 billion into mortgage modifications. The simple fact that such a large safety net may be set up under housing prices ought to help arrest foreclosures and substantially slow cascading housing prices...
...street performers in the Boston area has taken many decades of advocacy work. Stephen Baird, one of the most prominent national busker advocates and director of the Community Arts Advocates, has been attempting to increase the prestige of street performing for more than 25 years. After being threatened with arrest while performing in Boston Commons in 1972, Baird recognized the need for legislation to protect the rights of performers. He worked to put together the street performing ordinance now used by the Cambridge Arts Council.“I wrote the ordinance to take the licenses from the police...
...council’s members fail to act once the arrest warrant has been issued, then they will set a precedent that diminishes not only the deterrent potential of justice but also their own authority. If the Security Council allows a sitting head of state to remain in power after the ICC has indicted him for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and perhaps even genocide, then it will have ceded a bit of its own power...
...Soon after his arrest police shifted him from the country jail in the heart of the fire zone to Melbourne out of fear for his safety. A judge suppressed his name but he was soon outed on the Internet. Bloggers brayed for his execution and condemned him to burn in hell. He is now in solitary confinement...