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More change might flow from a landmark trial underway in Istanbul. The case pits the state against a shadowy ultra-right-wing network allegedly led by retired generals. Prosecutors accuse the group of staging bomb attacks and assassinations in a bid to overthrow the ruling Justice and Development Party and create a pretext for military rule. Turkey is no stranger to coups - the military has stepped in to push the government this way or that three times in as many decades. As recently as 2007, a veiled threat prompted early elections...
...Germany seems to have flouted that rule along with its moral subtext that crime doesn't pay. In January, $6.8 million worth of jewelry was snatched from the cases of Kaufhaus des Westens, a luxurious seven-story department store universally known as KaDeWe and as much a Berlin landmark as the Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate. Three masked, gloved thieves were caught on surveillance cameras sliding down ropes from the store's skylights, outsmarting its sophisticated security system...
...directed and co-edited the documentary—became fascinated by Mink after the former Hawaii Congresswoman’s death in 2002. Bassford discovered then that Mink had not only been the first woman of color in the U.S. Congress but had also co-authored Title IX, the landmark amendment that banned gender discrimination in federally-funded education and sports programs. “It was a great way to look at history differently through the eyes of an Asian-American woman,” Bassford says. Drawing upon hundreds of photos and newspaper clippings from Mink?...
...task of considering student governance on campus, was released Monday to mixed reactions from past and present Undergraduate Council members. While some UC members called it a necessary first step for improving the council’s effectiveness and efficiency, others called it an underwhelming follow-up to a landmark document of the same name that founded the UC.“It’s the report of another committee chair by John Dowling, but it’s not the successor to the Dowling Report,” said Eric N. Hysen ’11, the UC?...
...potentially explosive murder investigation which has gripped the Middle East for four years moves from Lebanon to the Netherlands today with the launch of a landmark international tribunal. The tribunal, established under the auspices of the United Nations, will judge the assassins of Rafik Hariri, a former Lebanese prime minister who died in a truck bomb explosion in February 2005, and of several anti-Syrian politicians and journalists murdered subsequently. ?After four years of waiting and desperately fighting all kinds of resistance (to the tribunal?s formation) we have finally won this battle for truth and justice,? Marwan...