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...Fighting corruption has been a top priority of the current administration, with defenders of SBY, as the President is known, quick to point out that even an in-law of the president was jailed for corruption. Still, legislation that could weaken the Corruption Court, where the KPK's cases are tried, is weaving its way through the Parliament, raising doubts about how long the current battle against corruption on multiple levels can be sustained. President Yudhoyono maintains that the fight will continue into his next five years but some fear he may lack the necessary tools to be effective...
...hedge funds or private equity on the tail of a banking crisis is itself a little puzzling. Official reports into the financial crisis - such as the British government-commissioned Turner Review, published in March - assigned such funds only a peripheral role in the tumult. National politicians have been quick to come to their defense. "It is not private equity that caused the crisis, nor hedge funds," Mats Odell, Sweden's financial markets minister said earlier this month in the context of the E.U.'s proposals. "But in some countries, the political debate portrays [them] as the problem." Paul Myners...
...call their project a "loving" one, spurred by the fact that Leitenberg's family contacted her Facebook friends. Both are quick to say their relatives are not the problem - Brooks Adickman says her parents aren't even "allowed" to join Facebook - but they recognized that others might not be so fortunate. "No matter how embarrassing your mom is, there's someone who's a thousand times worse," Leitenberg says...
...opposing an age increase, most voice reasons echoing those of Janssen, who added that she actually supports lowering the minimum age standard to work in prostitution. These advocates say that young girls in dire economic circumstances, like Majoor was years ago, should be allowed to enter the get-rich-quick industry—as long as the minors are not forced...
Doctors are quick to say that much of the 30% of excess health-care spending is on "defensive medicine" - providing extra care in an effort to avoid malpractice liability - but De Brantes counters that the Prometheus model creates budgets based on clinical-practice guidelines that, if followed properly, help protect providers against malpractice claims...