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...more of major plots. Lately, however, some of the French force's luster has tarnished as allegations of torturing and framing suspects have arisen. Last week, an appeals court acquitted two Corsican nationalists of contracting the 1998 assassination of Claude Erignac, former prefect of Corsica and the state's highest representative on the island. Though upholding their conviction for involvement in 1994 bombings on the French mainland, the court cleared Jean Castela and Vincent Andriuzzi of participating in the conspiracy to murder Erignac. The trial laid bare many gaps - and some false evidence - in the case police aided prosecutors...
...thought it was a tremendous Ivy League basketball game that represented the highest form of [league] play,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “For us, it’s still a loss though...
...going to say that I can’t shoot the ball,” Cusworth said. “Obviously coach would want me to have the ball close to the rim rather than out there, so shooting a three probably wasn’t the highest option on the play...
...firms that depend heavily on conditions or practices of an immoral nature.”Last April, Bok’s views were cited by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)—a group of students and faculty that advises the Corporation, Harvard’s highest body, on investment decisions—when it recommended that Harvard sell its holdings in Beijing-based PetroChina. The oil firm has been accused of facilitating the ongoing genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.But did the ACSR accurately synthesize Bok’s views? In an interview last...
...nuclear energy. So it was that earlier this week, just hours after the emergency at the LaSalle County nuclear plant and loud complaints from Republican Congressman Jerry Weller of Illinois, the NRC decided to launch a wide probe of all nuclear power operations in Illinois, which has the highest number of plants (6) and reactors (11) of any state in the U.S. As it happens, they are all owned by Exelon, a Chicago-based giant with some 5 million customers and $15 billion in annual revenues...