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...have been born in the country. By championing Ivoirite, Bedie sought to isolate the large immigrant population and the mainly Muslim northern part of the country that supported Alassane Ouattara, leader of the Assembly of Republicans, the largest opposition party. The notion of Ivoirite was inserted into the electoral code to preclude Ouattara, Bedie's most popular rival, from running. The government also forged papers saying he was a foreigner...
...rape well, and for myriad reasons. The most obvious being that this type of criminal investigation is all that the police department does. They are a law enforcement body charged with the responsibility to uphold and sustain criminal laws and to investigate, pursue and detain all who violate this code. The Ad Board, in contrast, is composed of individuals who split their time between administration and discipline within the College. An Ad Board member could conceivably spend his entire day grappling with the overcrowded Houses and then shut down his computer and rush off to a 4 p.m. meeting...
...believe the testimony of these men, some with long criminal records, over the evidence given by police colleagues of the accused officers. Jury questions to the judge indicated a high degree of skepticism over police witnesses' repeated lapses of memory, with a juror asking whether this was the infamous "code of silence" practiced by the police...
India's prowess in information technology isn't a new phenomenon. For years, the southern city of Bangalore has been a high-tech oasis where Indians write code for international tech giants and export software to the world. But the Net promises to push the IT boom into India's mainstream. Cities like Hyderabad, Bombay and New Delhi are promising telecom links and tax holidays to prospective business investors. "India always had the talent, but with the Internet, we've found the delivery mechanism to transport this talent around the globe," says Prakash Gurbaxani, who set up his own dotcom...
...date, the bonanza for India has come from the equivalent of the Internet's boiler room--writing code and other labor-intensive work. But that's Big Business in its own right, employing more than 50,000 people and expected to provide more than a million jobs by 2008. Indian software exports have grown from $50 million in 1993 to $6.3 billion this year. Ramalinga Raju, billionaire chairman of Satyam Computer Services, says those opportunities could eventually give India 5% of the worldwide opportunities in IT and create up to 50 million jobs in the next two decades...