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With Monday's conviction, it's now time for Sarkozy to make good on that pledge. Judicial accords between France and Chad make transferrals of convicts virtually mandatory once prisoners have requested return to their home nations. The six Zoé's Ark workers made such a petition just hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fallout from Aid Workers' Sentence | 12/27/2007 | See Source »

The road to jail for April Griffin began soon after her son Jesse was born, though she would have never guessed it at the time. Because she had sought state aide for medical coverage for the child, the state brought suit to determine paternity. She said she signed the petition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choosing Jail Over Joint Custody | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

The current poll is, in many ways, a referendum on Modi and whether his modernization policies outweigh his reputation for ethnic demagoguery. Sonia Gandhi, leader of the ruling Indian National Congress party, has spent days campaigning around the state and has accused Modi and his party of playing on communal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Voters Torn Over Politician | 12/11/2007 | See Source »

In 1987, Mark H. Kuo ’90 helped collect hundreds of student signatures to petition the University to hire an Asian American studies professor. Twenty years later, it’s déjà vu. The University still has no permanent professor in Asian American studies, and...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan and Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Asian American Studies Still Waiting for an Entrance | 12/10/2007 | See Source »

If the world ever manages to win the race against climate change, we may remember December 2007 as the month when we finally got out of the blocks. Right now ministers and environmentalists from 190 countries are meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali, to begin the laborious process of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Warming Playbook | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

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