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...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 are having to release suspects because the courts cannot schedule hearings within 72 hours, as required by law. "The justice system is being seen as enabling the criminals," says Katherine Hunter, head of the Asia Foundation in Dili, which works on governance and legal issues. "That creates a growing sense of impunity that makes the situation on the streets...
Alan Leong, a lawyer and lawmaker, is challenging Beijing-anointed incumbent Donald Tsang to be Hong Kong's next Chief Executive-even though he cannot win. The vote, on March 25, will be cast by an 800-member Election Committee that is largely pro-Beijing, and so pro-Tsang. Leong, 49, spoke with TIME's Peter Ritter about why he is running, Hong Kong's relationship with mainland China, and his sartorial trademark...
...What, then, do you hope to accomplish by running? We cannot win a rigged election this time, but we hope to lay the foundation to win a free election next time...
...Currently, only one credit from a secondary field can double-count toward anything else: a concentration credit, a Core requirement, or a language citation. This means that students in multidisciplinary concentrations cannot get secondary field credit in any overlapping department. For example, Social Studies concentrators cannot apply to receive a secondary field in government, economics, sociology, history, or philosophy, even if they have taken the requisite set of courses...
...Public exposure of its operatives will have a cascading effect. We should count on CIA sources - most of whom are foreign and vulnerable to arrest or much worse - having closely watched the Libby/Plame affair. They now are going to ask themselves, if the CIA cannot protect one of its own, why should it be expected to protect them...