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...strategies. He shut down community radio, websites and TV programs critical of him. Political power was used to intimidate the media, particularly the broadcast media, which are largely owned by the state. Management of these outlets came under tremendous government pressure to put him in a positive light, while those who failed to conform or attempted to expose corruption faced the risk of being intimidated through various means, including the threat of lawsuits. We are opposed to all kinds of media interference, intervention or intimidation, and have protested strongly against signs of such actions by the leaders of the Sept...
...Pilfering Priests"-it should have been "Plundering Priests." My wife and I left the Roman Catholic Church after its hypocritical handling of the sexual-abuse scandals. We were tired of wondering to which lawsuits our contributions were being directed as a payout to another victim. Now it comes to light that priests, as you describe, are "living as hedonistically as Renaissance Popes" by stealing the contributions made by their hardworking parishioners. It makes one wonder when the leadership of the church will wake up and allow priests to marry, so they can enjoy life with a companion...
...across Accra. The crowds, which had filled the city streets with the hum of celebration and hope, pushed into the square outside Parliament and cheered as Britain's Union flag was lowered and the green, gold and red colors of the new nation of Ghana were hoisted in a light breeze. In a nearby polo ground, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into dance and then spoke of a dream finally realized. "Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world," he declared. "At long last the battle has ended. Ghana, our beloved country, is free forever...
...first light, a troop helicopter landed on the hilltop and loaded the bodies on board; they were taken to the shipping container that serves as a morgue at the hospital in Dili. The Australians also took Nikson to the hospital, where he is in a stable condition and under arrest. Deolindo Barras' sister spent two days trying to locate her brother's body before it was brought to the morgue in a black body bag by Australian soldiers. Barros-who left a pregnant wife and three children-was very close to Reinado, she told TIME, "like a bodyguard...
...post argued. “Its attitude is harmless...but around a minute and a half, the thought will dawn on you: They’re not joking.”For HRTV, the controversy surrounding “Love/Hate” brought to light one what is currently one of their greatest challenges.“While our programming is held to a higher standard because we’re at Harvard, we’re basically shooting all of these programs with three, very basic hand-held recreational cameras,” says Koenigs...