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That mandate led Moreno-Ocampo to Darfur. After the Security Council voted in 2005 to authorize the ICC to investigate war crimes committed there, Moreno-Ocampo launched a probe that involved deposing hundreds of witnesses in 17 countries. By the end of 2006, the prosecutor's team produced evidence of Harun's role in planning and executing the killing campaign against Darfur's civilians. In a bracing scene in Darfur Now, a female rebel soldier, whose son was killed by the janjaweed, tells her comrades of "a man named Ocampo" who will deliver punishment to their enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Don Quixote of Darfur | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...have the ability to send a satellite to the moon, why is it so difficult to send all corrupt officials to prison?' WU MINGFA, a farmer from Xichang, China. The country launched its first lunar probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...heavy-handed scene, Hood splices shots of CIA torturers stripping Anwar of his clothes with scenes from a radical religious service where attendees are commanded to destroy the infidels. The abundantly clear parallel between the two extremes provides one example of Hood’s reluctance to probe into complex issues...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rendition | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...begun writing to the media about abuses at Florida State Prison under its then warden, James Crosby. That made it all the more surprising when Bush appointed Crosby secretary of the state's Corrections Department in 2003. Then last year Crosby was convicted after a sweeping federal probe of corruption inside the state's prisons - and he's now serving eight years in prison himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons? | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...Craig's reversal of his earlier promise to step down if he could not have his guilty plea reversed may frustrate the Republican leadership, the G.O.P. is still likely to retain an overwhelmingly red state like Idaho. Alaska, where seven-term Senator Ted Stevens is battling a federal corruption probe, could prove more challenging. Stevens is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for taking bribes from Bill Allen, the former CEO of VECO, an oil field services company. Allen and another former VECO employee have pled guilty to bribing state legislators and are cooperating with the investigation into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans' Big Senate Fear | 10/15/2007 | See Source »

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