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...Congo, they'd shoot them." Kagame and business, he says, prize the same thing: results. "There is a focus here. People whinge about the lack of political opposition. But if you look at what happened in 1994, lack of opposition looks pretty small fare." Dabbs Cavin, 42, a lawyer and commercial banker, moved with his wife and family from Arkansas to Rwanda last year to set up an arm of the microcredit lender Opportunity International and merge it with a local bank. "Kagame has a vision, he's doing all the right things, and that's attractive," he says...
Joseph F. Savage Jr., a lawyer, representing the examining board, said during oral arguments yesterday that granting extra break time for lactation would “compromise” the integrity of the exam, which is required by HMS for graduation and by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine to begin a residency program...
Today’s preliminary election features five contenders, including a Brighton lawyer and the director of a volunteer organization, competing to fill Jerry P. McDermott’s seat on the Boston City Council. Two of the candidates will go on to the next round of voting...
During his summation, Jeffs' lawyer Walter Bugden said the 51-year-old leader was being prosecuted for his religious beliefs and described the victim, Elissa Walls, now 21, who publicly revealed her identity on the last day of the trial, as "no shrinking violet" and her husband, first cousin Allen Steed as a "milquetoast," not a rapist. She had flirted and enticed her husband, Bugden said. It was an old, familiar tactic in rape cases. But prosecutor Brock Belnap won the day by arguing that what Jeffs did by urging the two to "go forth and multiply" was no different...
...Across Pakistan political activists and observers started to worry as the SMS messages continued to arrive into the early hours of the morning. No rallies had been programmed for the coming days, but lawyers, who had been instrumental in restoring Chaudhry to power, had announced a backup plan were the Supreme Court to declare Musharraf's candidacy legal. Nomination papers must be filed in person at the Electoral Commission by the 27th of September, and lawyer's groups had called for mass protests to block Musharraf's papers from being filed . "Musharraf's opponents made an announcement that they would...