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...Kennedy's legacy, Kerry says, is one of reaching across the aisle, of not making the perfect the enemy of the good, as Kennedy liked to say. "I learned that really early on, when I first got to Washington, and Teddy would invite me over to the house, and I would go to dinner and there'd be [Utah Republican Senator] Orrin Hatch and [Virginia Republican Senator] John Warner, [Alaska Republican Senator] Ted Stevens and a couple of other guys," Kerry says. "And so hopefully people will go back to Washington with a renewed sense of focus...
...Under German criminal law, it is illegal for public servants - a group that includes university lecturers - to take money for granting advantages to one person over another. Prosecutors wouldn't comment on the details of the case, but did say they are focusing their investigation on the teachers who took the bribes, rather than the students...
That assessment is shared by some Pakistan experts in Washington, who say the country's military, despite some success against militants in the Swat Valley, simply doesn't have the ability to confront the TTP head-on. A ground operation would leave the Pakistani army "with its nose bloodied," says Daniel Markey of the Council on Foreign Relations. Having "come out of Swat looking reasonably good," Pakistan's generals don't want to risk "taking a morale hit." (Read "Are Pakistan's Taliban Leaders Fighting Among Themselves...
...Scientific Counselling in the western town of Bergisch Gladbach in March 2008. At the time, the authorities uncovered a mine of information pointing to illegal activity and confiscated thousands of files, including contracts between the firm and lecturers, and evidence of bank transfers. Prosecutors in the city of Cologne say the institute helped doctoral candidates find a supervisor and paid lecturers to take on Ph.D. students. "Some Ph.D. students paid up to $30,000 to get their doctor titles," Günther Feld, a senior prosecutor in Cologne tells TIME. "Many people had received mediocre results in exams and they...
...convicted of accepting bribes, lecturers could face a sentence of up to five years in prison or a hefty fine. Anyone found guilty of receiving a fake Ph.D. title could also be imprisoned on bribery charges. But prosecutors say some of the students weren't aware that the fees they paid to the consultancy were being used to bribe teachers. It's up to the individual universities to decide whether to strip the Ph.D. holders of their titles. (Read: "It Happened One Night in Berlin...