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...earlier this month, says China has information about the pastor's disappearance that it hasn't shared with South Korea. Kim said Seoul should also get tough with Pyongyang, which still holds an estimated 468 kidnapped South Koreans. Says Kim: "It is the fundamental duty of a state to protect its citizens. South Korea has been terrible at this." Friends of Rev. Kim are losing hope that he is still alive after five years. "He may have become a martyr," says his brother-in-law, Chung Se Gook. "But the government should officially confirm whether he's dead...
...major concern is that the Home Secretary, not a court, would impose a control order, and also that "people may not be allowed to know the evidence held against them," says Doug Jewell of the human-rights organization Liberty. But the British government appears undaunted. Balancing the need to protect the public from terrorism while upholding individual civil liberties has never seemed harder...
...case. (Three senior PPL officials were arrested and charged on Friday with obstructing justice.) Workers at PPL reported the incident to Akbar Khan Bugti, the Nawab (or ruler) of the powerful Bugti clan. He says they told him the assailants were four soldiers in the Pakistani army. (Government troops protect the gas facilities.) Says the Nawab: "This gang rape took place on our land, in our midst. It has blackened our name...
...Means testing of benefits Social Security benefits are available to anyone, but should the safety net protect those who don't need it? Means testing would limit benefits for the wealthy by eliminating them above a certain threshold or reducing them as income or assets rise. That would reduce the benefit burden but could weaken support for the program. A wealth threshold might tempt people to hide assets and create a disincentive to save...
Jerome B. Tichner Jr., an attorney practicing healthcare law at Boston-based Brown and Rudnick, told The Crimson on Thursday that while he could not comment on PharmaCare’s specific case, current law requires insurance providers to “maintain reasonable safeguards to protect against improper access and disclosure of healthcare records...