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...alleged victim, known only as "A", has publicly voiced her wrath. After Mazuz announced the plea bargain, A told a press conference that the Attorney General had "cast her away like a grain of dust." The former presidential staffer detailed how Katsav allegedly advanced from making harassing phone calls - she claimed he demanded that she wear a skirt with no underwear to work - to locking her in the presidential office, pinning her against the desk and raping her. Katsav has denied A's allegations. Justice Ministry staffers were stunned by A's performance. "She said things in her press conference...
...Baqubah was strangely quiet as we flashed into town, an otherworldly convoy of dust-colored Stryker vehicles, bristling with gunners. Only a few small explosions could be heard in the distance; there was no small-arms fire. We stopped at a bombed-out medical clinic for a briefing, with operation maps leaned against a white ceramic tile wall, Odierno and his commanders sitting on boxes and camouflage-fabric campaign chairs in a tight semicircle. The news was good. The enemy was said to be caught in a tightening cordon. Local Sunni insurgents - they claimed to be members...
This group is absolutely appalled that the U.S., having infuriated the North with a targeted, highly effective sanction - the freezing of $25 million in funds in Macau, most of which came from illegal businesses like counterfeiting - simply said "never mind" when it became clear the dust-up would ruin the nuclear deal. Kim, in this view, is a hard guy to get any leverage over, simply because he doesn't think like a normal head of state: everything is a zero sum game to him - you win or I win. The U.S. Treasury's action freezing the funds squeezed...
...goods. According to investigators, the companies employ children as young as 12 in double shifts and at low wages; the firms dock laborers a full day's pay for spending more than 15 minutes in the toilet; they also provide no gear to protect their employees against paint vapors, dust and cotton fibers in plants. The findings on the four Olympic licensees revealed an "appalling disregard for their workers health and for local labor laws," the report said...
...nose at an issue that should dominate attention. The Faculty meeting in which the Task Force’s report was to be discussed was one of the most poorly attended of the year. We hope that Faust and Smith do not allow the report to gather dust on a shelf and instead make it a guiding document for their tenures.The two should also take a page from former FAS Dean William C. Kirby and former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ playbook in making the improvement of student life at Harvard College a priority. The FAS dean...