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...more, his massive state purchase of U.S. Sugar Corp. land to enhance Everglades restoration, touted last year as a landmark environmental triumph, is now under scrutiny as a sweeter deal for the sugar giant: the company was represented by a legal firm headed in part by Crist's former chief of staff, George LeMieux, whom Crist later tapped to fill the Senate seat the Governor is now seeking after Republican Mel Martinez stepped down last year. Crist got a boost last week when state water-management officials voted to keep the crucial land deal alive...
...believed to have assumed overall responsibility for Taliban military operations from the movement's No. 2, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who is in Pakistani detention after being arrested last month in Karachi. Zakir is hardly an isolated case. In 2008, the Pentagon claimed that more than 60 former Gitmo detainees were suspected of having rejoined the insurgency. (See portraits of Guantánamo detainees...
...protesters comprise mainly rural poor who seek the return of Thaksin Shinawatra, a former Prime Minister ousted in a 2006 military coup. Thaksin has been living in self-imposed exile rather than serve a two-year prison sentence on a corruption conviction. In late February, the Supreme Court confiscated $1.5 billion of his assets, ruling that he had gained them through abuse of power while Prime Minister...
...Others have been more blunt in their criticism of the book. Former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski has compared the biography's publishers to "purveyors of brothel guides." Polish author Tomasz Lubienski says Domoslawski crossed a line when he decided to publicly challenge the reputation of his mentor. "Domoslawski was not a good disciple of Kapuscinski, who was a refined man," Lubienski wrote in Gazeta Wyborcza. "[His book is] about the private life of the man who wrote The Emperor. That's unnecessary and it pushes the book into the gutter." Says another writer, Andrzej Stasiuk, in defense of Kapuscinski...
...institutions. With up to 200 allegations of abuse, 22 out of Germany's 27 Roman Catholic dioceses have been affected by the scandal. Even the famous choir of Regensburg, in Bavaria, which the Pope's brother Georg Ratzinger led for 30 years, has been drawn into the scandal, after former choirboys described a "system of sadistic punishments and sexual lust." (The retired Georg Ratzinger says he didn't know about the alleged sexual-abuse incidents.) (See pictures of Pope Benedict...