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...social exclusion among Roma. Representatives of four maternity wards cited in the CRR report and contacted by Time said the allegations were untrue and biased. "It's a load of nonsense," says Stefan Pitko, head of a maternity ward in Spisska Nova Ves, eastern Slovakia. "The Roma in this district make up 14% of the population yet account for 46% of births. If we sterilized them the way the report suggests, they couldn't bear so many children." Claude Cahn, programmes director at the European Roma Rights Center, a Budapest-based human-rights group, claims the report's findings were...
...Across town, while Dan-ni-er sleeps the pregame afternoon away, the indoor and outdoor courts of the Lu Wan District Children's Athletic School echo with the clamor of wannabe Yao Mings. Teenage boys leap and shout and launch fadeaway threes, and a dozen girls who can't be older than seven dribble two balls at a time?perhaps the Olympians of 2020 and beyond. OUR DREAM IS TO BECOME A SHANGHAI SHARK, reads a banner strung on the fence, but it is out of date; the success of the Young Giant has trumped domestic glory. Now, says...
...October hearing on the motions for summary judgment, U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock indicated that he was more inclined to believe Harvard had broken the contract than that it had intentionally falsified its funding requests—the basis of the FCA claim...
...November 2001, PP won an injunction preventing plate production. Then, this past Dec. 26, the U.S. District Court for South Carolina ruled that the “Choose Life” license plate legislation violated the First Amendment protection of freedom of speech because it facilitated speech for only one side of the debate. This ruling was contrary to an October decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a “Choose Life” license plate from Louisiana, despite similar charges...
...business style served him well in the first few weeks of his administration. His decision to forgo his salary as governor was admirable. He was able to make appointments based on merit instead of patronage. For example, he appointed the widely respected African American former District Attorney Ralph C. Martin, III to head the state Judicial Nominating Council, a group that has had little success in diversifying the state bench in the past...