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...pro-choice but has the endorsement of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, who believe he would vote for a pro-life Supreme Court judge...
...would plead guilty if he hadn't struck a beneficial deal with the feds. They in turn almost certainly expect Rothstein "to name names," says Zelden, not only of those who might have aided the Ponzi scheme, "but of politicians who may have been playing any kind of quid pro quo shenanigans with him." (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...widely lauded market reforms. With spiraling inflation and the global financial crisis taking a bite out of the country's crucial export sector, some say government hardliners have responded by rolling back economic and personal freedoms. Late last year, Vietnam blocked Facebook and Twitter and arrested a number of pro-democracy activists. Jetstar Pacific, as the only joint venture domestic airline in Vietnam, could have become a target for conservatives who resent giving up control to the private sector - especially as Jetstar has increased its market share at the expense of the state-run Vietnamese Airlines. Carl Thayer, a politics...
...Merkel wasn't expecting to encounter so many problems so soon with the governing coalition she negotiated with the pro-business FDP and the CDU's sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), following her victory in last September's elections. But holding the coalition together is proving to be a challenge given the policy differences, competing egos and vested interests involved. In an effort to try to iron out the partners' differences, the leaders of all three parties will meet for dinner on Jan. 17 to discuss a host of issues: tax cuts, health care reform, Afghanistan...
...devolution of policing and justice powers from London to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which was reconvened two years ago following its suspension in 2002. Sinn Fein wants control over the province's police force to be transferred to Belfast to end what it perceives to be a longtime pro-Protestant bias. But many Protestants, including Peter Robinson, are reluctant to change the status quo. Even before Iris Robinson's affair came to light, Sinn Fein had signaled that it could walk away from the power-sharing deal - painfully negotiated throughout the 1990s - if the DUP fails to compromise...