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Reports from overseas claim as many as 3 million direct and indirect Madoff victims worldwide, according to Spanish law firm Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, which has filed a U.S. lawsuit in the name of some victims. The firm's estimate is based on information collected from 30 law firms around the world representing close to 3,000 people or institutions in 25 nations that have so far taken legal action over the scheme...
...border, are now small islands of India surrounded by Bangladesh or vice versa. Elsewhere in this same stretch of border are villages that simply refuse to accept the lines drawn by Radcliffe's pen. New Delhi backs those that want to stay in India, despite the legal claim of Bangladesh, and Dhaka does likewise. There are 1,696 acres (690 hectares) of these "adverse possessions," where India and Bangladesh effectively occupy each other's territory. That means 21 miles (34.5 km) of border that cannot be fenced, cannot be floodlit or gated and in many cases is simply not policed...
Witty super bowl ads these are not. The commercials for foot pads that suck the toxins from your body are very straightforward: smack the cushions onto the soles of your feet, and overnight, the ads claim, you will sweat out metals, minerals and any other accumulated nastiness. Who wouldn't be appalled by the brown footprint left the next morning by a body newly unburdened of pollutants? And who wouldn't dial that toll-free number right away, credit card in (toxin-laden) hand? (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...linked challenges of Pakistan and Afghanistan agree, it is that soothing regional tensions is an essential part of any solution. Pakistan, seeing Indian investment in Afghanistan, fears being encircled by its old enemy. Then there is the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir, the Himalayan territory that both nations claim. During the presidential-election campaign, Obama said repeatedly that resolving the Kashmir issue is a key to peace across South Asia...
...have not heard from anybody to suggest that the President is moving away from the commitment he made in Zanesville to clean up the constitutional problems with the faith-based initiative," says Barry Lynn of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. "Other people claim he's moving. But that's not what I'm hearing...