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"These cases piled up, and there got to be a consensus that something should be done," Marsh says. The conservative-dominated appeals court, the Republican-led legislature and Republican Governor Rick Perry were not opposed to reform. "The courts, officials were tired of being embarrassed all the time," Marsh says...
Harvard Law School’s biggest donor, who died last week in an apparent suicide, may have owed up to $100 million in back taxes and fines, the New York Times reported this week. Finn M.W. Caspersen, who gave over $30 million to the Law School and tens of...
The news felt familiar: after a dramatic shootout in central Java, Indonesian police had managed to corner and kill the region's most-wanted terrorist, Noordin Mohammed Top. A month after first reporting Noordin's death in another August raid, police announced on Sept. 17 that - this time - they were...
The Shabab, the hard-line Islamic militia that controls much of the capital, Mogadishu, and southern Somalia, promised swift revenge for the killing of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who was wanted in the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-run hotel in Mombasa, Kenya. That retaliation came Thursday, Sept. 17 - and...
As ineffective as the AMISOM force is, however, Somalia?s weak transitional government isn?t doing much better. The President is holed up in a villa in the capital, and the army has so far been incapable of mounting a serious offensive against the Shabab. The best thing to be...