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According to TIME's cover story, "it's not clear that anyone has the ability to get the belligerents to calm down" in the Middle East. Fortunately, that is false. For one, the U.S. could simply tell Israel to stop bombing Lebanon and Gaza or forfeit military aid. Israel would have no choice but to comply. The fact that the Bush Administration has not pursued that avenue to peace indicates that its stated priorities are not its actual goals...
...into South Korea's second-largest conglomerate, then fled the country in 1999 as it collapsed under an estimated $80 billion in debt; to 10 years in jail for embezzlement and fraud; in Seoul. Kim, who returned to the country to stand trial last year, was also ordered to forfeit more than $22 billion-a sum far exceeding his net worth. He will not begin serving his sentence for 12 months because of heart problems. Kim's lawyers say they plan to appeal the verdict...
...strike price-the report indicates they're currently trading below this level-and their value when they would become exercisable beginning in 2008 and 2009. ArmorGroup chief administrative officer Christopher Beese declined to discuss how Kappes and ArmorGroup might dispose of his options, though it appears likely he will forfeit them. Kappes also received $50,000 in salary and benefits in the last two months of 2005, though his annual salary could not be learned...
High school marijuana users everywhere breathed a heavy, smoke-tinged sigh of relief this past February 1. On that day, Congress amended the Higher Education Act (HEA): College students with pre-college drug offenses would again be eligible for federal financial aid.But students with offenses during college still forfeit their funds from the government—and a spate of drug-related incidents earlier this year at Harvard has raised questions about the inviolability of financial aid at the College.Opponents of the federal drug policy want the HEA to be amended further.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with...
Since then, the Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM), or Free Papua Movement, has waged an independence struggle of peaceful protests and occasional attacks by poorly equipped guerrillas on Indonesian soldiers and foreign interests like the giant Freeport gold mine. Jakarta, which does not want to forfeit Papua's natural wealth or see another province break away as East Timor did in 1999, agreed in 2001 to a Special Autonomy Law. But independence supporters say little has changed since then. Access to the province is notoriously difficult but in recent years human-rights groups have documented a range of abuses by Indonesian...