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...evaporated in March, when they were deported with their 5-year-old sons. The women got so little warning that their four other children were left behind, as immigration officers escorted the women to Dublin Airport before the older ones walked home from school. As the mothers scrounged to bribe police officers and pay hospital bills back in Nigeria - their 5-year-olds had never received vaccinations against African diseases - the older children went into hiding. "We expected that they would have been more civil about it," says Kemi, a friend of the women who refused to give her last...
...Deputy President Jacob Zuma, on fraud and corruption charges. After a riveting eight-month trial and a three-day verdict broadcast live on television and radio, Judge Hillary Squires found Shaik guilty on all three charges against him. Squires announced Shaik had paid some $180,000 to Zuma in bribes between 1995 and 2001 in order to keep in the Deputy President's good books and gain advantages for his company, and had also brokered a bribe between Zuma and a French arms-trading company. Squires said there was "overwhelming" evidence of a corrupt relationship between Shaik and Zuma...
...bulletin also notes the Iraq-based master terrorist's apparent belief that "if an individual has enough money, he can bribe his way into the U.S.," specifically by obtaining a "visa to Honduras" and then traveling across Mexico and the southern U.S. border. Al-Zarqawi's aide also revealed that his boss, after pondering the absence of attacks in the U.S. in recent years, concluded that a lack of "willing martyrs" was to blame. Al-Zarqawi believes, according to his lieutenant, that "if an individual is willing to die, there was nothing that could be done to stop him," even...
...that possible is to ensure that the goals of career and parenthood are compatible. That seems to have been accomplished in places like Sweden, where women's participation in the labor force is high and so is fertility. It's an expensive solution - critics might call it a parenthood bribe - since the government pays for maternity and paternity leave, health care and education benefits. And it's a level of social spending some say Europe can no longer afford. But the alternative - too few young people to take care of the old - may be even costlier. In Spain, Zapatero...
...Vote” commercials, appreciate the effort. Think about why your friends don’t vote and about why this specifically targeted advertising isn’t working. Talk to your friends and figure out why they’re apathetic. Encourage them, berate them, coax them, bribe them, drag them to the polls kicking and screaming, just make them realize the importance of voting...