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...While they undergo 212 years of linguistic training, the courts are being run by a dwindling group of international legal experts. In August 2006, for instance, not a single civil or criminal trial hearing was scheduled because of a lack of staff. Even though corruption is becoming a concern in East Timor, no cases of graft have been brought to trial since independence. Today, with so few Portuguese-speaking judicial employees available, police are having to release suspects because the courts cannot schedule hearings within 72 hours, as required by law. "The justice system is being seen as enabling...
...Fretilin's pledges of concern were undermined last month when Deputy Prime Minister Estanislau da Silva denied reports of famine in the countryside, insisting that not a single person in East Timor had died of hunger since independence. "Every day I have people coming to my door who are slowly starving," says Bishop of Baucau Basílio do Nascimento. "Are you saying these people do not exist?" Even if the April presidential election is supposed to give these citizens a voice, many are so disenfranchised that they see little point in participating in the democratic process. Back...
Subsequent discussion turned everywhere from the failure of designated dining hall and tutorial hours to accommodate practice schedules, to the concern of varsity sailor Margaret M. Wang ’09 that club—and certain varsity—sports are underfunded and athletes are often forced to reach into their own pockets to meet training costs...
...representative from the men’s rugby team, which is not recognized as a varsity team and is therefore not attended to by the athletic training staff, the primary concern was his team’s physical well-being...
...held recreational cameras,” says Koenigs. “We don’t yet have the resources to meet those standards, but if we can get those resources we can really take off.”MAKING DOThe limited resources of the station is a primary concern for freshmen behind HRTV’s two newest shows, with the teams behind each show choosing to address the problem in a different way.The team behind the vampiric “Ivy Bites,” led by executive producer Antonio J. Hernandez ’10, and executive...