Word: formerly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sorry. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and other thriving German companies are now facing class-action suits from the thousands of slave laborers forced to work in their factories during the Nazi era, while Swiss banks that once swallowed Jewish assets have offered up $1 billion to Holocaust survivors. Former Bosnian leaders are facing international tribunals for crimes against humanity. And Jiang Zemin, his own human rights violations notwithstanding, has embarked this week on his first state visit to Japan, demanding written apologies from the Japanese government for its brutality in China during the 1930s and '40s-an apology that Japan...
There is a good argument to be made that Pinochet's extradition has been less than fair, and in a recent Wall Street Journal article, former British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind claims exactly that. Pinochet's arrest would give international weight to the rulings of a single Spanish judge; his arrest, if demanded by unitary actors as it is now, would be clearly biased and unfair: "The proper courts of law for international criminals," Rifkind claims, "are international courts...
...interesting to note that the world is crawling with former brutal dictators who are currently living it up. (My parents, for example, vacationing in Paris a few months ago, found themselves in the same hotel as former Zairan dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.) And it's even more interesting that someone who kills one person is more likely to wind up in prison than someone who kills thousands. But what's most interesting about both of these facts is that neither of them seem at all remarkable...
Thomas O'Brien, Harvard's former vice presidentfor finance and architect of its current savingsystem, calls the new payout estimate "verymodest," adding that most schools now target for a5 percent payout...
...relying only on good intentions -- comes out of a Washington conference of 44 countries and more than a dozen Jewish, cultural and business groups. The conferees agreed on a set of guidelines to retrieve and return Nazi-looted art to rightful owners and also to return communal property -- from former synagogues and schools, for example -- to Jewish communities. Stuart Eizenstat, head of the U.S. delegation which sponsored the gathering that concluded today, pronounced himself "impressed" and "overwhelmed" by the results...