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...Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International, Indonesia ranked as the world's 12th most corrupt country, worse than economic basket cases such as Sierra Leone, Papua New Guinea and the Congo. Indonesia's legal system gets particularly low marks. In an IMF-sponsored report, a panel of Indonesian lawyers recently studied 500 bankruptcy cases in the country since 1998 and determined that about 30% of all verdicts were incorrect, either because judges misunderstood the law or disregarded it. Foreign bankers and investors often have trouble enforcing contracts in Indonesian courts. In one case, a court last year nullified a $180 million...
...Wednesday’s panel, three different Currier House challenge teams, as well as eight challenge teams from other Houses and the Yard, presented their projects to a panel of four judges from the Harvard Green Campus Initiative and Harvard’s recycling and waste management and physical resources offices...
...most unsettling parts of the 9/11 attacks: how close the government had come to sensing the plot, how far it remained from being able to stop it and how little Americans knew of either tale until now. "There are a lot of problems leading up to 9/11," panel chairman Thomas Kean told TIME, "and the suspicion is that some of them aren't yet fixed. We can't afford that as a country...
Because it has been an almost open secret in Washington for years that the government knew more about the 9/11 plotters than it publicly admitted, it's easy to forget that the full story was almost never told at all. Congress waited almost a year before it formed the panel in 2002, and the Bush Administration fought its creation, its budget and then its duration. But two years of foot dragging created its own momentum for change: the more the White House fought the commission's requests, the more the commissioners became convinced that radical change was needed...
...were castigated for "selfishly" ignoring government travel warnings and causing trouble for others. - By J.F.O. McAllister. With reporting by Jeff Israely Following the Money UNITED NATIONS Secretary General Kofi Annan launched an independent inquiry into allegations of corruption relating to the U.N.'s Iraq oil-for-food program. The panel is to investigate claims that top U.N. officials were among those involved in defrauding the $67 billion program. Terror Alert BRITAIN In raids in northern and central England, police arrested 10 people of North African and Iraqi Kurd origin on suspicion of terrorism. Authorities refused to comment on reports that...