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...Portuguese. Indeed, the language obstacle is so great that every single one of East Timor's judges, prosecutors and public defenders failed a competency evaluation in 2005. While they undergo 212 years of linguistic training, the courts are being run by a dwindling group of international legal experts. In August 2006, for instance, not a single civil or criminal trial hearing was scheduled because of a lack of staff. Even though corruption is becoming a concern in East Timor, no cases of graft have been brought to trial since independence. Today, with so few Portuguese-speaking judicial employees available, police...
...August-September 1999: As East Timor votes for independence in a U.N.-supervised referendum, Indonesian soldiers and militias loyal to Jakarta rampage through the territory, killing hundreds and displacing nearly half the country's population...
Since the vaccine was approved in August, the Seneca and 13 other women’s groups have founded the Harvard HPV Vaccine Awareness Campaign to encourage undergraduates to get the immunization and to pressure University Health Services to offer it for free...
...back to my dorm with my coffee, I noticed a green pickup truck with an odd-looking trailer parked near the Yard. Closer inspection revealed that it was in fact a rolling memorial to Alex Arredondo, a Marine from Boston who died at age 20 in Najaf, Iraq in August...
...also possible that NASCAR'S gourmet makeover could be turning off once-loyal fans. NASCAR observers like Mark Yost, author of The 200 MPH Billboard: The Inside Story of How Big Money Changed NASCAR, due out in August from Motorbooks International, says the presence of wine is just another sign that the already marginalized core beer drinking NASCAR fan has now been completely priced out of the sport. "NASCAR has 75 million fans and that's a lot, but those fans aren't what's driving the corporate army into the sport," he explains. "There's so much business...