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...admittedly remote. But a renewed focus on military atrocities in Burma could increase pressure on the regime and re-energize Burma's embattled democracy movement in the wake of the gloomy Suu Kyi verdict. A compelling case for a Burmese war-crimes trial is made in a May 2009 report by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School. Its authors, who include one former judge and two former prosecutors from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, detail systematic and widespread atrocities committed in Burma in recent years: killings, torture, rape, "epidemic levels" of forced labor...
...TIME's special report on the environment...
...Indian companies who make those products, and their shareholders, will soon ask themselves the same question. A recent report from analysts at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch in Mumbai projects "a 10 to 15% pullback in equities led by drought-led growth cuts." Every major drought in India has a pervasive impact on the economy, which is unlikely to meet the government's projected 7% GDP growth this year. (Analysts expect 6% or less.) With crops failing, food prices will go up everywhere, pushing up inflation. Mohammed Nadim, a vendor in Hoshiarpur, says the wholesale price of his cartful of sweet...
...News and World Report uses seven indicators to determine academic quality including peer assessment, retention, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, graduation rate performance, and alumni giving rate. One factor that is not measured, Morse said, is what students learn. A recent survey by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, addressed this question by assessing colleges’ general education curriculums. Harvard received a letter grade of D, Princeton C, and Yale F, according to this assessment...
Obama, President Barack •a dozen people show up at Phoenix event of brandishing guns - including someone who says he's carrying a semi-automatic assault rifle "because I can do it. In Arizona, I still have some freedoms" - and the Secret Service just shrugs •report on bipolarity...