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Ever since last month's debate in Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton's opponents have been clamoring for her and her husband to release all the papers from the National Archives pertaining to her role in his presidency. After all, they claim, what better way to judge the experience that she cites as her chief qualification to hold Bill Clinton's old job? So is Clinton holding something back, as her rivals suggest, or is this simply, as she insists, a question of moving "as quickly as our circumstances and the processes of the National Archives permits...
...spokesman tried to justify the company’s decision, telling news agency Swissinfo that “UBS does not do business with companies in Sudan or those that generate substantial revenues in Sudan,” only a tortuous reading of business relationships bears this claim out. While technically separate entities, PetroChina is a public subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which owns 87 percent of PetroChina and controls its corporate governance policies. Indeed, the report that mandated Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina in April 2005—released by the Harvard Corporation Committee...
...capital, Mogadishu, had seen in 16 years of civil war. There was also an acute and mounting humanitarian crisis, as hundreds of thousands of refugees fled the capital for makeshift camps in the desert. But an August lull in the fighting allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to claim violence was ending. And Washington, which sent a small number of U.S. Special Operations troops to accompany the invasion, was optimistic that the government the Ethiopians installed - the Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) - would make progress towards national reconciliation. If that could be accomplished, the U.N. and other agencies might feel safe...
...Whether guilty or innocent, those detainees are then likely to be in for a months-long journey of questioning and petitions. Citing a provision of the Geneva Convention and U.N. Security Council resolutions, U.S. forces in Iraq claim authority to arrest individuals deemed a threat to either the government of Iraq or U.S.-led multinational troops in the country. Initially, anyone arrested by U.S. forces can be held informally for about 14 days before their case gets officially started. After that, the detainee is sent to a U.S. detention compound if military officials decide there is enough evidence of insurgent...
...power-sharing deal between the two rivals would have seen Musharraf step down as army chief while maintaining the presidency, with the support of Bhutto?s party. In exchange, Bhutto would have been cleared of as of yet unanswered corruption charges (which she claims were politically motivated), permitted to return after eight years in exile, and allowed to run for the office of Prime Minister, which many assume the populist leader would have easily clinched. Some Pakistanis see her as desperate to be free from those corruption charges...