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...National Congress (ANC) to go to trial on corruption charges, accused of accepting bribes from a tycoon murder suspect, Glenn Agliotti, and his associates in 2004 and 2005. The case is being seen as a critical test of South Africa's judicial system. Since being elected President in April, Jacob Zuma has vowed to clean up South African politics, firing and disciplining a number of senior civil servants. An impartial and transparent trial for Selebi would be an important milestone in the efforts of the courts to recover their legitimacy following years of highly politicized cases. (See pictures of South...
...Senator Max Baucus' Finance Committee in the next week - it is widely considered the closest version to what will eventually reach the President's desk - may go too far in the other direction. "To leave a lot of these responsibilities to the states will create a patchwork mess," says Jacob Hacker, a political science professor and health-policy expert at Yale and a longtime champion of the public option. "It's a way of punting on crucial structural elements." (See the top 10 health-care-reform...
...first crush”? (Emma’s poor luck in love keeps getting more and more hilarious. The episode implies that she once had an “online flirtation” with Andrew Cunanan.) Meanwhile, Rachel’s prospects are limited to future YDN-reporter Jacob who just wants to see her “over-the-shoulder boulder holder.” Finn swoops in to put the moves on her again, but he's actually wooing her to come back to glee so he can get a music scholarship. Finn, we didn?...
...Given the risks of mass vaccination, the decision to launch a program can be fraught. According to Jacob Weisberg's book The Bush Tragedy, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were split in 2002 over whether to administer a nationwide smallpox vaccination program in the U.S. Cheney said that doing so would be a prudent counterterrorism step. Bush overruled him because the program could have resulted in dozens of deaths. (Statistical analysis has shown that the smallpox vaccine kills between one and two people per million inoculated.) Health officials don't always get the decision right...
...security measures follow concerns about book theft raised by House Master Ann Porter last week, according to Dunster tutor Jacob S. Jost, adding that the House Masters reiterated that concern at a meeting yesterday...