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...Finally, after five days of interrogation, I was loaded into a police van and driven to a prison in Dhaka, where I was given a cell to myself with a sink and enough blankets to make a mattress. The prison hospital gave me painkillers for the throbbing in my knee. Compared to my treatment at the police station, this was luxurious. Then, after 50 days in custody, I was finally released on bail on Jan. 18, thanks in large part to pressure from Paris-based Reporters Without Borders and New York's Center to Protect Journalists. But the police have...
...impression that going the multilateral U.N. way was only a tactic and Bush's decision has already been taken," says Friedbert Pfluger, foreign affairs spokesman for Germany's opposition Christian Democratic Union, "there will be a problem in Europe." Large numbers of Europeans believe the timetable for war is driven not by Iraq's behavior but by the U.S. desire to attack before Iraq's desert weather heats up to make warfare more difficult...
...licensed brothels. Since they were abolished in 1946, the government has steered an uneasy course between prohibition and regulation. Although pimping is a criminal offense, selling sex is technically legal. If police enforce the new measures that outlaw soliciting, most observers predict that prostitution will simply be driven underground. Achispon counts himself amongst the pessimists. "This law's good for us because it's going to enable us to arrest prostitutes when they cause a disturbance on the street. Before, we could only give them a caution. But it's not going to solve the problem. The pimps are just...
...Agnelli dynasty out of the auto business - cleared the way for the family's long-anticipated and inevitable exit from carmaking. The market's initial reaction was a reminder of just how much the Italian industrial landscape has changed since the heady days of the post-1950s boom, driven by the dashing Agnelli and his knack for selling stylishly small automobiles all over the world - and revving up the profits at home. "The car has led a revolution of customs and consumption," Agnelli once remarked. "At the same time, it has fundamentally launched the country's economic growth." But even...
...diplomatic pre-game and timetable of any U.S. invasion. President Bush is signaling growing impatience with the UN weapons inspection process, and administration officials are furious at France and Germany's rejection of any move to military action at this stage. The French and German positions are being driven by the overwhelmingly antiwar sentiment of their citizenry, and the fact that over 80 percent of the British electorate opposes military action without UN backing creates a problem for Blair...