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...part, Fielding laid out most of his findings in a document called the pardon book, a compendium of evidence for anyone seeking clemency. The book on Libby lengthened the odds on a pardon. "You might disagree with the fact that the case had been brought and that prosecutorial discretion had been used in this way," says a source familiar with the review. "But the question of whether there had been materially misleading statements made by Scooter - on the facts, on the evidence, it was pretty clear." As far as Fielding was concerned, Libby had lied under oath...
Finally, the law also legalizes what, in fact, is an already common (albeit illicit) practice in shops and malls clustered around Paris, Lille and Marseille - though limits it to those areas. The text calls for Sunday work to be left optional for employees and paid higher than other days, but opponents say those stipulations will be ignored once bosses start ordering employees fearful of losing their jobs to take on dominical work behind closed doors, and on management's terms...
...Suleimaniya University, "that opposition parties and groups are using to campaign in the elections." This month KRG prime minister Nechirvan Barzani (Massoud's nephew) launched a process to improve government openness. Qubad Talabani (Jalal's son and the KRG representative to Washington) has been blogging from Kurdistan that the fact that the disputes are public is a sign of a healthy young democracy...
...past mineral-trading and armed groups remain wholly unfounded," the statement said. "We remain at a loss to understand why Afrimex is still being mentioned by Global Witness." Global Witness spokesperson Amy Barry said, "Just because they have claimed to stop sourcing at this point doesn't change the fact that they were sourcing during our research. So we still think that the evidence we uncovered is worth bringing to the public's attention...
...those statistics don't take into account the fact that people will use the Internet over their mobile phones, which are seemingly ubiquitous even in the poorest African villages. Nor does it measure the myriad ways in which people will take advantage of speedy Internet access to create businesses or offer services that, before Thursday, would have been too costly to fund. "The demand for bandwidth can't be based on current prices and current demands," says Stork. "As soon as prices drop, many more applications come up and create more demand...