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Nevertheless, some human-rights groups blame the donor community for their consistent unwillingness to pull aid when their pleas for reform aren't met. "The donors' list of conditions hardly changes over time, and the government simply ignores them year after year," says Brad Adams, Asia director of New York...
The Serbian province of Kosovo, whose 2 million people are predominantly ethnic Albanians and want independence, has been administered as a U.N. protectorate since NATO's 78-day bombing campaign forced Serbian withdrawal in 1999. Now, U.N.'s special envoy Marti Ahtisaari has proposed de facto independence under European Union...
Off they sailed, from Florida to Gitmo, in the vagrant hope that 9/11 heroes might get the same high-end care the government said it was lavishing on 9/11 terror suspects. His bullhorn pleas met with silence, Moore took his cargo of the ailing - the rescue workers, Donna and Larry...
In addition, Faculty members rejected the Undergraduate Council president’s pleas and approved a controversial new rule to hold student group leaders responsible before the Administrative Board if students suffer "serious harm" because of alcohol abuse at group parties. The policy will take effect this fall.
Padilla might well be a very bad man. But as he and two co-defendants face these charges in a trial expected to last four months, his story sounds depressingly familiar. Last September, the Justice Department crowed of 288 convictions or guilty pleas obtained in "terrorism-related cases." But the...