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...March 31, Serbia apologized for its role in the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. While the measure expressed sympathy for the victims of Europe's worst atrocity since 1945, it stopped short of using the word genocide. Serbia, which has applied for E.U. membership, must capture General Ratko Mladic, leader of the Bosnian Serb forces that committed the massacre, and send him to a war-crimes tribunal before its application will be considered...
Nine students were indicted on criminal charges March 29 for verbal and physical bullying that authorities say led to the January suicide of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old freshman at South Hadley High School. The case comes as the Massachusetts legislature finishes work on an antibullying law that would require school officials to investigate suspected incidents...
President Obama announced a plan March 31 that would allow oil drilling 50 miles off the coast of Virginia and encourage exploration for future drilling sites along the Eastern seaboard and northern Alaska. (The Pacific Ocean and Bristol Bay are off-limits.) Obama called the drilling leases, the first of their kind in two decades, a "balance" between the country's future oil needs and a desire to protect its natural resources. The proposal was largely seen as an effort to court GOP support for an upcoming climate-change bill...
...perceived value of that kind of experience helps explain why there's little organized resistance to unpaid internships in the U.S. These jobs have become such a widely acknowledged stepping stone to employment that in late March, the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank in Washington, proposed the creation of a federal program that would give stipends to low-income students who take unpaid internships in public service, which the government defines as work at nonprofits and government agencies. (See the best business deals...
...however, the rising use of unpaid internships has recently garnered headlines for perpetuating inequality between those who can afford to work for free and those who cannot. The country's largest union federation, Trades Union Congress, launched rightsforinterns.org.uk in late March to help get the word out that internships that offer no real training are exploitative - and illegal. So far, more than 2,500 people have joined a Facebook group that a British student started called Interns Must Be Paid the Minimum Wage...