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...This week, France's senior investigating magistrate, Françoise Desset, ruled that a case brought by the anticorruption organization Transparency International against three African leaders had sufficient merit to warrant a full judicial investigation. The complaint accuses the trio - Gabon's President Omar Bongo, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, and Equatorial Guinea leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema - of pillaging their impoverished nations and treating state money as their personal wealth to finance acquisitions in France. The ruling means Desset can use her judicial authority to examine banking and other records to determine the origins of funds...
...unity, hopelessness in place of change. Ironically, the continuation of the policies that ensured his campaign’s success has forced Obama to abandon many of the promises he made during that campaign in the first place. The administration that promised to bring change to America has instead brought only more division—a division that may ensure Obama’s election in 2012 but will sacrifice his message in the process...
...think there's any perfect solution, because the essence of a free-market economy is that people are allowed to make mistakes. And some of these bubbles have a good side. The Internet bubble of the 1990s brought us Amazon and eBay. They're still with us. Stabilizing the economy isn't the final goal. Having a little bit of turmoil, as long as it doesn't get out of hand, is part of creative destruction. You have a history of highlighting parts of the economy that have gotten out of hand before other people are paying attention. What...
...team compete at the BU Trophy in Boston, placing 11th overall as a team.ICSA NATIONAL SEMIFINALSThe Crimson co-ed squad had been eyeing the ICSA National Semifinals all season long, as a chance to qualify for nationals and also to perform well at an event that brought together many of the top collegiate teams in the country.“It was a very competitive weekend of racing,” Garrity said. “Things were made a bit trickier by the fact that we were only able to get in eight races in each division, which...
...Maoist rebels it once battled ferociously in the jungles and hills - the same Maoists who were elected to power with the end of the monarchy the army had supported for decades. But the eventual integration of the enemies was an inescapable clause in the peace accord that brought the rebels down from the hills and into the halls of parliament...