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...after reading your article on the lack of accountability and oversight at the Securities and Exchange Commission [March 9]. Thousands of hardworking people lost their jobs and homes as a result of the incredible nonfeasance, misfeasance and probably malfeasance of Christopher Cox and friends. Those responsible, from government to local banks and mortgage brokers, need to pay for this bailout. If we don't get legal justice, we need to take it to the streets. I did not serve 20 years in the military for this. James C. Byrk, Plattsmouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...pardon his sentence," says St. Pierre. "That will be very demonstrative as to what this new Administration will do about medical marijuana. They can influence it. They can dial back what had been overt federal opposition to medical marijuana and allow, as they should have from the beginning, local mores and values to dictate who is going to run afoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California Marijuana Truce, a Legal Gray Area | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

When Iraq's provincial elections in January ran smoothly, observers touted the outcome as a positive step toward a freer society. But elections alone don't make a democracy. A draft law to regulate nongovernmental organizations was approved this week by the Cabinet, unsettling elements of the nascent local NGO community, who say that parts of the law raise concerns about how free and fair the new Iraq will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iraqi Government's New Target: Do-Gooders | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

Their main apprehension centers on a mandatory registration process. Both foreign and local NGOs must register with a government directorate. Registration in and of itself is not a problem, activists say, but the proposed legislation - which will now go before the Parliament and must be signed into law by the President - is vague about the conditions under which the government can refuse to register NGOs. The draft also envisions a government that can pry more directly into the internal management of NGOs. Baghdad will also have discretionary power to either grant additional privileges or remove an organization's benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iraqi Government's New Target: Do-Gooders | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...years how some government grants have been given to NGOs with political ties to parties in government," says Hashem Assaf, spokesman for the NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq, an umbrella group that represents 52 international and national bodies, including Oxfam and Mercy Corps, as well as more than 200 local affiliates. "We, as NGOs, are trying to remain independent." (See TIME's 2005 Persons of the Year: The Good Samaritans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iraqi Government's New Target: Do-Gooders | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

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