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This time the setting is a Paris criminal court, which is examining a smear campaign allegedly overseen by Villepin in 2004. The President and his backers maintain that those behind the smear, which linked Sarkozy to illegal kickbacks from arms sales, not only set out to derail his presidential bid but continued to use evidence of wrongdoing even when they knew that it was fraudulent. Villepin and his supporters deny any such campaign, and say Sarkozy is using the trial - and his presidential power to influence it - to pursue a personal vendetta. (See pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy...
...special report is also a collaboration with Maria Shriver, who has overseen a wide-ranging study called The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything along with the Center for American Progress, and who will also be revealing some exclusive findings from our poll on Meet the Press on Oct. 18. Maria, the First Lady of California and an irresistible force in her own right, also oversees California's annual Women's Conference, one of the nation's premier forums for women to come together to discuss vital issues. Held on Oct. 26-27, this year's conference will...
...expected to be made public on Oct. 14. Though Arpaio's severe tactics are popular among Arizonans, his deputies have attracted widespread criticism in their pursuit of illegal immigrants for harassment and the racial profiling of Latinos. Just a small fraction of the 33,000 arrests he has overseen have been based on documentation checks in the field, but Arpaio says the program to allow field checks is symbolically important: "This is a crime-deterrent program, too." (Read "Arizona: It's No Party in the County Jail...
...just what are those values? In China, the press is still overseen by propaganda officials. Online discussion is managed by censors, and the country is one of the world's leading jailers of journalists and bloggers, according to the press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders. It is not those limitations on the media that China's propaganda ministers are trying to modernize. Rather, it's the ability of the political party to have its message heard. An August Qiu Shi article complained about the dominance of the global media by a small number of conglomerates like Murdoch's News Corp...
Located in a huge underground tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland, the LHC is overseen by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in collaboration with scientists in over 100 countries. There are six main experiments that data collection at the LHC will service—each of which will address a different question about particle physics, Lecompte said...