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...Morgan Tsvangirai. Bakshi, a joint social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator, had traveled to Zimbabwe over the summer to conduct interviews with Mugabe’s current spokesman, George Charamba, who is the permanent secretary of the Information Ministry. Bakshi also spoke to Charamba’s predecessor, Jonathan Moyo, who was expelled from Mugabe’s ruling party early last year. Harvard College halted funding for student travel to Zimbabwe in 2004 but lifted that restriction this past October. Nonetheless, Bakshi used his own means to pay for the trip. Even after his arrest, Bakshi said...
Bakshi, a joint social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator, had traveled to Zimbabwe over the summer to conduct interviews with Mugabe’s current spokesman, George Charamba, who is the permanent secretary of the Information Ministry. Bakshi also spoke to Charamba’s predecessor, Jonathan Moyo, who was expelled from Mugabe’s ruling party early last year...
...politics is that increasingly, everything flows according to Putin’s cravings. Long gone are the days when Kremlin-watchers thought this sober former KGB officer would copy-cat feeble former President Boris Yeltsin. Damningly, when the Kremlin intervened to rectify most of the shady privatizations of his predecessor, media freedom was severely obstructed. The State took control of most media outlets and kept them, minimizing criticism within its borders...
...that end he has added more moderates to his inner circle?most notably staff chief Susan Kennedy, an iconoclastic Democrat who supports abortion rights but shares the Governor's hostility to government regulation. And he has demoted partisans like liberal environmental activist Terry Tamminen and Kennedy's predecessor, conservative Republican Patricia Clarey. He is courting?or, some suggest, co-opting? Democrats on pet issues like raising the minimum wage and freezing tuition at state colleges. But at the same time, he followed the politically safe precedent?no California Governor had commuted a death sentence in 38 years?and denied clemency...
...after fewer small drug deals and focusing more on public corruption and Mob cases. "We both agreed we should avoid a lot of rinky-dink cases," Chertoff, who is now the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, told TIME. The result was that Alito prosecuted far fewer drug cases than his predecessor had but also won some major cases, including several convictions of members of the Genovese crime family who had sought to kill Gambino Mob boss John Gotti...