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...tribunal's judges say they have three more Khmer Rouge suspects in their sights, and a court official says that trials could begin in early 2008. In an interview with the Associated Press last year, Nuon Chea said he expected to be exonerated and that he was "glad to go [on trial], so that people in my country and other countries will know the truth of what happened." The families of millions of dead Cambodians are hoping for the same...
With so much hostility and bad press, drug companies could be forgiven for wanting a better image. That is precisely what industry critics say is behind the hundreds of millions of dollars they pump into corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs in the developing world. The U.S. drug industry says it has created 126 health partnerships with governments and aid organizations that have helped up to 539 million people since 2000. Some observers remain cynical, however. They say CSR is mere window dressing - a clinic here, an outreach program there - that does not address the root problem...
Dana Perino takes over as press secretary...
...freedom of the press, Peskov made a rather dubious argument that the national TV networks just couldn't support themselves financially, and that's why the government had to take them over, a move it would love to undo, he said. Peskov at least doesn't deny that new government-owned media hews closely to the administration's script. It's a natural state of affairs, he says. "Sky Channel never criticizes Rupert Murdoch," he said. "And ABC never criticizes Mickey Mouse." But he says that the smaller regional television stations that are independent are highly critical. "If you monitor...
...Coast Guard icebreaker now on its way back from plying the waters of the Chukchi Cap, north of the Bering Strait, has charted the sea floor with a multibeam echo sounder to delineate where Alaska's continental shelf ends and the depths of the Arctic Ocean begin. But to press its case for extended territorial waters, as the other Arctic nations are doing, the U.S. needs to sign the convention. Some conservatives have always depicted the treaty as a no-win giveaway of U.S. sovereignty that would cast the baleful shadow of "world government" over the high seas and that...