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...help protect the rights of students. But what about older interns, many of whom graduated years ago? "That's not the typical scenario that's been on our radar screen," says Nancy Leppink, the DOL's wage and hour deputy administrator. "The fact of the matter is, the legal requirements aren't any different...
...government's decision to redefine the mission as a "non-international armed conflict" changes things, says Christian Schaller, a legal expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Now, German soldiers will be operating within a clearer legal framework. For example, the troops will be able to use military force to fight against insurgents under international humanitarian law. But there could also be tougher penalties. "Germany's Code of Crimes Against International Law will apply, and in extreme cases, German soldiers could be prosecuted for war crimes," Schaller says...
...meantime, the legal clouds around the case appear to be growing thicker. On Wednesday, April 7, Israeli prosecutors arrested Olmert's close confidant and former lawyer Uri Messer on suspicion of helping to collect bribes, obstructing justice and laundering money in conjunction with an unnamed suspect. The local media are barred by a court order from revealing the identity of the suspect. The Jerusalem Post ran an article with the headline "Uri Messer Is the Link." The police are calling the Messer case "one of the most serious corruption affairs in the state's history." (See how Olmert succeeded Ariel...
Despite his legal problems, Olmert still has robust business activities and business connections. After leaving office last year, Olmert opened a business-consulting firm in Tel Aviv, which has so far made hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the former Israeli leader continues to frequent the lucrative lecture circuit in the U.S. An arrest or new indictment, if either occurs, would likely be more of a public embarrassment than a political bombshell...
...title of "most corrupt Prime Minister" in Israeli history by a landslide, with 52% of the vote. "I don't see any chance of him coming back into politics," says Raviv Drucker, a top political commentator on one of Israel's main television channels. Whatever the outcome of his legal problems, Olmert has already come to symbolize a generation of politicians who eschewed the abstemious ways of Israel's founding leaders and enriched themselves at a time of unprecedented security and prosperity, failing to address the deeper problems facing the country...