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...tried to go underground but was arrested by Guatemalan police backed by U.S. officials as well the U.N.'s Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, or CICIG. Created in 2007, CICIG (separate from Portillo's proposed 2003 U.N.-backed anti-crime commission, which was aborted when the Guatemalan high court at the time ruled it unconstitutional) is one of the only non-governmental agencies in the world that is allowed to do autonomous criminal investigations in a sovereign country...
...MPAA declined to comment specifically on the Cisco breakthrough but said it supports technological innovation. Meanwhile, both the MPAA and the RIAA continue to fight emerging technologies like peer-to-peer file sharing with costly court battles rather than figuring out how to appeal to the next generation of movie enthusiasts and still make a buck. These younger consumers prefer to shop for movies online, watch them at their leisure on mobile devices and desktops and share them with friends. The studios and music labels have to figure out how to fit into that lifestyle, or else risk becoming obsolete...
Smith, who was arraigned today in the Middlesex Superior Court, will appear in court again on Mar. 31 for a pre-trial conference, according Jessica Venezia, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney's office...
...Most of these advertisements come with little or no disclosure about what specific companies, unions or individuals are providing the funds. Thanks to the recent controversial Supreme Court campaign-finance decision on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the ads also offer premonitions of what many of these same members of Congress may face in the fall, when unions and corporations will be able to spend money anonymously to advocate for candidates' election or defeat in the weeks before the polls...
...White House aides, who are critical of the Supreme Court decision, say they worry that the recent change to election law could lead to whole new level of campaign-finance pressure. "The most alarming part of Citizens United is that theoretically insurance companies could go to members and say, 'Oppose health reform, or I am going to run a million-dollar ad campaign in your district,' " says Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. "That's the nightmare scenario...