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...choose Alexander Milinkevich, the Belarussian opposition leader who was defeated in his run for the presidency this year allegedly because of government fraud. He fights for democracy even though he is being harassed. We should thank him for his dedication and encourage him further...
...open parties. A list posted to a secure UC web site would be the easiest and most efficient way to facilitate that.The party grant fund is a popular and effective way for the UC to boost campus social life. The system should, however, be made more resistant to fraud. It is easy to fake receipts, and even publicity emails, but it is nearly impossible to convince a UC representative at the door that a party is happening inside if it is not. With a little more oversight, the Finance Committee could improve the party fund’s integrity...
...hasn't won a Senate race in the state since Al Gore in 1990 and because of the political baggage from his family, which is active in state politics but known for a spate of corruption scandals. His father, former Congressman Harold Ford, Sr., was charged with federal bank fraud and acquitted in 1993 and his uncle, a former state Senator, was indicted for bribery earlier this year...
...traffic, but in the political vacuum that has existed since 2004, the main beneficiaries of free movement seem to be criminals. "The bicommunal activity to have benefited most from the 2003 opening of the green line," says one U.N. official, "is crime." Dozens of suspects wanted on charges of fraud, rape, attempted murder and other serious crimes are escaping justice simply by crossing the green line to the other side of the island. Nightclubs on both sides of the line have become a destination for traffickers bringing women from Eastern Europe, according to a recent U.S. State Department report...
...further 3,797 death sentences. (The U.S. executed 60 in 2005.) One reason for the high rates of execution is that Chinese law - even after the changes announced this week - allows the death penalty to be imposed for such non-violent crimes as embezzlement, accepting bribes and tax fraud...