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...what everyone always should have known: the allegedly ‘independent’ judicial system is simply an arm of the administration, and an arm of the administration that is out of its mind and out of control.”Geier said that punishments are often too harsh and punitive, and students are not allowed to confront those who file complaints against them.“None of the students understand the process, what goes on there,” he said. “It’s cloaked in secrecy, stocked with attorneys...
...traffic jams or bright advertising to bring life to the city. The omnipresent police keep crime in check, but also beat up "undesirables" in broad daylight. Some modern shops stock luxury consumer goods - at least in their windows - but most shoppers earn wages that barely cover staples. At night harsh floodlights glare over silent, empty streets. Exporting leftover Soviet weapons worldwide and, allegedly, serving as a conduit for illegal arms trafficking from Russia, help keep the Lukashenko state afloat. It is also dependent on Russia for the country's main legitimate source of income: two oil refineries that process cheap...
...giving a false confession is precisely what the three sailors say they did do. In their Nov. 10 petition to outgoing Virginia Governor Mark Warner, Danial Williams, Derek Tice and Joseph Dick Jr. claim that after Norfolk homicide detectives subjected them to hours of harsh and manipulative questioning, they fabricated elaborate details of a rape and murder that they had absolutely nothing to do with. The three were only part of a larger group of eight men who, over the course of a two-year investigation and three trials, were charged with the 1997 murder of Navy wife Michelle Moore...
...Recently, Ignatieff has faced harsh criticism from voters in the largely-Ukrainian region of Etobicoke-Lakeshore where he is running, who accuse him of using disparaging ethnic slurs in his published work...
...strong supporter of Israel—said that the peace plans put forth during the Clinton administration would have created “functional contiguity” within the Palestinian state, enabling Palestinians to move between any two parts of their country within 90 minutes.Chomsky—a harsh critic of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians—disagreed, saying that the plans “cut through the West Bank completely.”Both professors displayed a variety of different maps to support their claims, and frequently attacked the veracity of their opponents?...