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...SENTENCED. CHALASAI YUGALA, 29, widow of Thai Prince Thitipan Yugala; to six years in prison for fatally poisoning her 60-year-old husband with insecticide so she could run off with a chestnut peddler; in Bangkok. Better known as Luk Pla, she told police she only meant to render her husband unconscious so she could flee the palace...
...convenience store has mushroomed. Specializing in the resale of mobile phones, these outlets offer not only 24-hour service, but inviting price tags, with the bulk of their handsets in the $100 range. Police believe most of the phones are stolen, but complicated Czech proof-of-ownership laws render them almost powerless to prosecute. And in a country where almost 11,000 cell phones were reported stolen in the first eight months of last year, the police seem equally helpless to prevent the crimes. "How can you stop the theft of something that you can hide in the palm...
With so many supports in place, I felt Harvard’s ultra-tolerant environment should render such a defense mechanism unnecessary. During the first weeks of freshman year, I met my gay academic adviser, my two lesbian proctors and my gay assistant dean of freshmen. The gay dances and gay social events were a far cry from the hostile halls of my high school. To me Harvard was a homosexual heaven—there were seven other gay students in my dorm alone...
...result of military action and occupation." MacArthur's opposition had nothing to do with the legal, ethical or moral rightness of restitution claims but with immediate U.S. policy goals and growing cold war fears. Such a course would, according to MacArthur, "embitter the Japanese people toward us and render Japan vulnerable to ideological pressure and a fertile field for subversive action...
...outsource its employees. It is quite another thing altogether to believe that outsourcing is, in general, a “deplorable” practice, as it has been called. After all, why shouldn’t firms outsource? Why shouldn’t the worker who is willing to render the best services for the least pay be the one who gets the job? Instinctively, most of us recoil in disgust at the suggestion that wages should reflect nothing more than the cold calculus of supply and demand. Yet, few of us realize just how essential this...