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...about people getting filthy rich." But it still prioritized the needs of ordinary Britons. "When you see politicians charging for small things, like a bathroom plug, you know they don't care about the common people," says Mehta. The message from opinion polls is unequivocal: the majority of Britons favor an early election to restore faith in Parliament. Mehta concurs. The only difference between Britain and a dictatorship, he says, "is that here they cling onto power legally. There should be an election; let the people decide...
...Haven, Conn., case is a gross misrepresentation of reality. In fact, the judges went along with current, established constitutional law intended to prevent discriminatory criteria. An appeals court should not overturn Supreme Court rulings lightly. It would have been judicial activism to ignore precedent and decide in the plaintiffs' favor. Cinny Wong, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...workers' family members. "We have lost our national conscience," says Shantha Sinha, chairperson for the National Commission of Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). "Otherwise why would educated people break the law at every moment by employing minors as domestic help and behaving like they are doing the children a favor?" (Watch an audio slideshow about India...
...refused to co-operate with police after they demanded she hand over notes and other materials relating to a terrorist attack in March that killed two soldiers. Over a month after the high-profile case was first heard in a Belfast court, a judge ruled in the journalist's favor on June 18. (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...
...Look, for the past 30 years, the Supreme Leader - first Khomeini, now Khamenei - has blamed all our problems on the Great Satan," a prominent conservative told me. "If you take away the Great Satan and we still have problems, how does he explain it? Almost everyone here is in favor of ending this war with America. But no one has less incentive to make peace than the Supreme Leader...