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...February 19, 2009, it is acceptable to lie in the pages of the Washington Post. There is no other way to interpret the e-mail that the paper’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, sent to reporter Pat Johnson that day, excusing a blatantly error-riddled column on global warming by George Will that the Post had published earlier in the week...
...here is like a snake, it only bites those who are barefoot," one reader posted, referring to popular notion here than only the poor do jail time. Similar ire was expressed by the Sandinista government's Chief Prosecutor Julio Centeno, who called the decision a "barbarity," and Human Rights Ombudsman and former guerrilla leader Omar Cabezas, who said Volz should not be allowed to leave the country...
Michael Kolber is The Crimson’s ombudsman and a Harvard Law School student. He has written a column, responding to reader complaints with his independent critiques of The Crimson. This is his fourth and final column...
...underworld trade. The nation's ill-regulated adoption business, run by private lawyers and notaries, is rife with corruption, including forged paperwork, payoffs to women who agree to hand over their children and, in some cases, newborns stolen from hospitals or mothers' arms, according to the government human rights ombudsman's office. One U.S. couple spent almost two years and $50,000 to adopt their Guatemalan daughter, Ella, only to find out later that her biological mother "was essentially a baby factory" who had sold many of her eight children to a dealer, says the adoptive father. "It felt almost...
Michael Kolber is The Crimson’s ombudsman and a Harvard Law School student. He writes a monthly column, responding to reader complaints with his independent critiques of The Crimson. This is his third column...