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There are no answers yet to questions about who was behind the attacks and why the government did little to prevent them or react quickly enough. Local police have arrested a group of water vendors from the neighboring country Niger and accused them of being mercenaries. However, analysts say they are being used as scapegoats, and Niger's foreign envoy strongly condemned the arrests, saying the men were simply doing their jobs and had no involvement in last weeks incidents...
...Obviously, the United States need not go as far as China by executing these hucksters, nor should it react so sensitively as Latvia, where simply bringing up the financial crisis in a public setting can earn you two years in jail. Yet the U.S. justice system can at least make a symbolic gesture in denying the parole of corporate criminals recently convicted for crimes. Their sentences were hailed not long ago for the strong signal they sent to would-be embezzlers; the time is right to use strict enforcement of those sentences to restate that message...
Even as we absorb the implications of the global financial crisis and plan for how we might react to it, our commitment to provide our undergraduates with an unparalleled academic experience remains as strong as ever. Progress continues with our new Program in General Education and with planning for our ambitious House renewal effort. It is about the latter initiative that we are writing today...
...Indeed, even before GM, Ford and Chrysler officials submit recovery proposals Tuesday in hopes of persuading Congress to steer aid their way, Europe has started to react. French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a four-year, 400 million-euro package to help French automakers build more environmentally friendly cars. Sarkozy also called last week for the loosening of E.U. restrictions on direct state aid to companies, restrictions established to encourage more-competitive markets in Europe. "We can't have the Americans unlocking $25 billion in loans for their three manufacturers while we would be caught up in a state-assistance regime...
...discouraged when they scored a couple goals in the third period,” junior defenseman Alex Biega said. “At one point, it was 3-1, 4-1, and we didn’t really react to it the way we should’ve as a team, collectively. We didn’t really fire back. It’s pretty evident looking at the shot chart—we only had 19 shots the whole game. That right there is an indication that we didn’t want to win it badly enough...