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...never even met Shaariibuu. But on June 29 a court witness claimed she had seen a photo of Abdul Razak, Shaariibuu and a man she named as "Najib Razak" dining at a Paris restaurant. Najib has refused to comment on this specific testimony. "The longer he tries to avoid the issue, the more wild the rumors will be," says Lim Guan Eng, secretary-general of the opposition Democratic Action Party. "The government wants to be known as serious about transparency and justice, but this case damages those efforts...
...Education and Trade Ministries before joining the Cabinet as chief whip), it's that she can be calm to the point of boring. But the former economics teacher from Malvern who grew up in the British midlands and who represents a parliamentary constituency there also managed to avoid the factionalism that divided Labour. While Blairites and Brownites were fighting like cats and dogs, Smith was quietly making an impact...
...Easing Tensions Re "How to avoid a new cold war" [June 18]: Whenever someone asks me to explain the murky goings-on in Eastern Europe, I say, Read Zbigniew Brzezinski. Zbig is nash, or "one of us," in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish. He has the personal background and intelligence to see everything clearly, as well as the courage and ability to expound on it coherently. The West cannot afford to allow his advice to go unheeded. Ksenia Lena Maryniak, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, EDMONTON, CANADA
...within minutes of Bush's signing of the document that lets Libby avoid 30 months in jail, Democrats were declaring it the capstone in a cover-up to protect Vice President Cheney and perhaps the President himself. Senate majority leader Harry Reid called it a "disgrace." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it a "betrayal of trust of the American people." Barack Obama's campaign released a statement saying the decision "cements the legacy of an Administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above...
...planned. Second, judges are now nominated by an independent board. The judges at Megrahi's trial would have been nominated by the Lord Advocate, who is also the chief adviser to Scotland's public prosecution - a system that may have made it hard in the past for judges to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest. Both moves, says Black, were brought in largely to help Scotland comply with the European Convention on Human Rights. Since the Scottish National Party is now in power in Scotland, favoring greater autonomy from the central United Kingdom government in London, Scotland may jump...