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...them taxes. The projects are located in an area nominally under KIO control, but the former rebels were angry that the dam deal was negotiated directly between the Burmese government and Chinese hydropower firms without their input. (Eventually, the Chinese paid up.) More foreigners could get caught in the cross fire. Next year, Burma's generals will oversee nationwide elections, two decades after they ignored the results of the last polls. But for the cease-fire groups to participate in the balloting, the junta requires them to give up their guns. For many ethnic organizations, the KIO included, that...
...opaque off-balance-sheet "special purpose vehicles," which played such a big role in the meltdown (and in the Enron scandal). Another: the establishment of a G20 College of Supervisors, the beginning of a world regulatory body to oversee financial markets, coordinate national responses and troubleshoot crises at cross-border financial institutions. Europe is moving in this direction; others should join...
...tenth of a second,” Dan laughs. “We’ve even tied for 16th before and had to swim off.”As the Jones’ talent grew in their late teens, the twins abandoned their second sport—cross-country—and focused on the prospect of recruitment. Despite their childhood fixation with local aquatic powerhouse Michigan, the allure of Cambridge changed the brothers’ thinking.“I feel like swimming is a good balance with academics here,” Bill explains...
...actions of Yoo and two other OLC lawyers. Many Democrats would like to see Yoo and Cheney's own lawyer, David Addington, investigated for their role in creating the Bush Administration's so-called torture doctrine. And on the weekend of Cheney's CNN appearance, a leaked Red Cross report on the treatment of Gitmo prisoners used the T word, describing in graphic detail how terrorist suspects were, among other things, beaten, kept in coffin-like boxes, chained to their beds and starved for weeks at a time...
...might have been St. Patrick’s Day, but the Harvard men’s volleyball team (8-6, 3-1 EIVA Hay Division) would need no luck to beat the Engineers of MIT (22-11). With a raucous crowd cheering on the Crimson, Harvard swept its cross-town rival 3-0 (30-23, 30-17, 30-26), giving the team its fifth win in the last six games...