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...tone was even harsher from Merkel's aides and leaders of the other political parties, many of whom called for stiff jail sentences for those convicted of tax evasion. "It would be unbearable if, in the end, deals were made instead of putting people on trial," said Kurt Beck, chairman of the Social Democrats, junior partner in the federal government coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tax Probe Jolts Germany | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

Last spring, a black teenager was arrested and taken to jail for riding his bicycle on a sidewalk just outside the Yale campus. Perrotti, who suspected “police misconduct” and called the arrest “clearly a case of racial profiling,” said she was denied access to certain information because of the offender?...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Police Records Made Public | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Justice. The protests received little more than token support from the Bush Administration, but they rattled Musharraf, prompting him to suspend the constitution, dismiss the Supreme Court and lock up hundreds of political and civic leaders. Among them was Ahsan, who has been under house arrest (and briefly in jail) since Nov. 3. It's a telling comment about the state of political freedom in Pakistan that, with the country set to vote in a Feb. 18 general election, its most respected democrat is confined to his home in Lahore's Zaman Park neighborhood. Ahsan, a Cambridge-educated lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Best Hope for Democracy | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...military-backed Caretaker Government brought peace to the streets and promised to clean up Bangladesh's rampant corruption, fix its institutions and hold clean elections. One year on and there is no doubt the government has begun the work it set itself: two former prime ministers are in jail awaiting trial, hundreds of other senior officials have been arrested, and the slow if important work of overhauling some of Bangladesh's broken state bodies is underway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Charges of Torture in Bangladesh | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Words of Love Online | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

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