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...like reinforced steel and then fabricated safety data to indicate projects were in compliance. Aneha, who admitted in a press conference to faking the data, said he had buckled under pressure to meet cost requirements of developers and construction firms that had hired him. In hearings before the Japanese parliament last week, Hideaki Shinozuka, an executive director at Kimura Construction, which built many of Aneha's buildings, denied pressuring the architect to violate safety regulations. "I said to reduce the amount within legal limits," Shinozuka said...
After years of government repression, activists like el-Erian have a lot to cheer about. The final round of balloting gave the Brotherhood, whose candidates ran as independents, 88 seats in the 454-member parliament, making it the main opposition to President Hosni Mubarak's secular, military-backed regime, which has ruled Egypt for 24 years. The result, a sixfold increase over the group's 15 seats in the current national assembly, came despite clashes between Brotherhood supporters and government police who tried to prevent them from voting. The violence left 12 dead and hundreds injured. And the election raised...
...helped spur a revival of Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab world. He was among thousands of activists rounded up at about the time a Muslim extremist assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. After a year in prison, el-Erian won a seat in parliament in 1987, serving three years before being jailed again...
...even an incapable person." The proposed new rules wouldn't come into effect until 2008 because astrologers have deemed the intervening years inauspicious. The King is trying to convince the country to back the changes, which under the present system must be formally approved by its rubber-stamp parliament...
...Michael Heseltine, who served in the cabinets of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, told TIME last week that it would be very difficult for the Tories to win the next election, but that the result "could be a very small Labor majority or a hung parliament, which could provide a good platform for coming to power in six or eight years' time." Whether Cameron can succeed where the last four Tory leaders have failed, for the moment he has brought a refreshing fizz back to British politics...