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...basic refugee rights denied to people here every day. I do my best to cozy up to UN employees, but what about after my white posse and I get in our jolly little bus and take off? Recently, we’ve been talking about establishing a formal complaint system, but for such a thing to work, all the stakeholders first need to acknowledge the refugees’ humanity and their right to demand justice. From my talks with these UN and NGO employees—who, coincidentally, are the only overweight people I’ve seen since landing...
...complaint said that former Goldman Sachs analysts Plotkin and Pajcin hired Shpigelman to leak information about six mergers or acquisitions that Merrill Lynch was overseeing, including those between Proctor & Gamble and Gillette, Duke Energy and Cinergy, and Reebok and Adidas. According to the complaint, Shpigelman received cash and pledges for a share in profits...
...Filed yesterday with the U.S. District Court in Washington, the complaint accuses Vice President Dick Cheney, former top aide I. Lewis ?Scooter? Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove of violating the couple?s rights to free speech, privacy and equal protection by conspiring to reveal Plame?s CIA identity, ostensibly in revenge for Wilson?s criticisms of the reasons for the Iraq war. The filing came on the same day that Robert Novak, whose syndicated column first reported that Plame was with the CIA, revealed that Rove was one of his sources for the information...
...doing so. That leaves open the question of whether Vice Presidents get immunity, but the consensus among constitutional scholars is that they do, so Cheney lucks out. As behind-the-scenes guys, Rove and Libby probably get only qualified immunity, which means they?ll have to show that the complaint fails to state any legal claims, if they want to get rid of it quickly...
...That complaint has long been shared by the anti-immigrant far right in France, whose leader Le Pen complained that France "cannot recognize itself in the national side." Still, it was precisely the makeup of its national team that allowed French soccer to play a major role in helping France imagine for itself a more cosmopolitan identity...