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...country's second-largest city, Aarhus, has raised legal questions. Two of the men, Tunisians ages 36 and 25, were to be administratively extradited, an extra-judicial shortcut that would avoid taking them through a trial. Meanwhile, the third man, a 40-year-old naturalized Dane of Moroccan origin, was released for lack of evidence, also without a trial. The security service explained that it had achieved its goal: to prevent a murder. It said that if the men had been put on trial PET would be forced to reveal its sources of information and working methods. According to Danish...
...historical debates. Most notably, genuine territorial disputes arose in 1986 after a Chinese researcher authored an article asserting that that Koguryo, an ancient kingdom long considered to be one of the first Korean states by both Korean and non-Korean historians alike, had actually been proto-Chinese in origin. While seemingly trivial, these territorial clashes cannot be taken lightly given the extreme sensitivity of both the Communist regimes in China and North Korea. The Early Korea Project represents a unique opportunity to clarify the historical facts on the ground–to highlight the cultural heritage of an understudied region...
...Singh vociferously denies he used the word, the match referee (who adjudicates in such disputes) said that he was "satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Harbhajan Singh directed that word at Andrew Symonds and also that he meant it to offend on the basis of Symonds' race or ethnic origin...
...even more, with the Flemish in particular questioning why they should be subsidizing the French speakers, based mainly in the poorer, southern region of Wallonia. The bad blood even extended to the Miss Belgium contest in Antwerp last weekend: the eventual winner, Alizée Poulicek, is of Czech origin, but despite speaking French and English, her failure to master Dutch earned her boos from the local crowd...
...push for sustainable dishes is much more than a health foodie’s cause or a produce connoisseur’s obsession, and the shift towards local, seasonal, and organic college dining is becoming increasingly common. But why should we, busy Harvard students, care about the origin of a chickpea or the homeland of a grapefruit...