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...complaints about the government's misplaced priorities: a businessman who legally imports foreign goods says the government hasn't stopped the influx of smuggled products; a musician couple can't find affordable housing in Tehran; an English teacher at a government-run language institute complains of the school's harsh new dress code. "Instead of caring about our coat lengths, maybe [Ahmadinejad] should pay attention to what counts," says Farah, 32, the teacher...
...many cases involving misdemeanors, or minor crimes, defense lawyers typically request a quick trial before a judge, prosecutors don't bother to prepare thoroughly, and the result is often acquittal. Another possibility is that judges so resented the federal sentencing guidelines, which replaced judicial discretion with strict and frequently harsh rules, that they demanded stronger proof of guilt when the prescribed sentence seemed unfair. Leipold leans to this explanation because judges started to acquit even more often at about the time the guidelines went into effect...
...Since becoming foreign minister, you have forged close ties with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Was this hard after being a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy...
...Chen's wife, Yuan Weijing, who has been under house arrest herself for months, was equally stunned by the harsh sentence. Each day, she says, her three-year-old son tells her he doesn't want to start supper until his father comes home. "Today," she told TIME by cell phone, "I had to tell my child that his father won't be joining him for dinner for a long time...
...story said, "Despite the fact that the government of South Korea has little to show for it, polls there suggest people still support the 'sunshine' policy, in place since 1998, which amounts to an all-carrots, no-sticks approach to relations with Pyongyang." I believe that is a little harsh because in the past dozen or so years South Korea has tried diplomacy with the North even as it bolstered its defense capabilities. The combination of strong defense and openness to negotiation is probably about as good as the Republic of Korea can do. Mike Stark Greenbelt, Maryland...