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...answer depends on whom you ask. De Beers and the rest of the diamond trade would say yes. Watchdog groups like Global Witness would say no. Eight years ago, Global Witness produced damning evidence of jewel-related slaughter in several African nations. It caused an international scandal and gave rise to a policing mechanism called the Kimberley Process, which requires diamond-exporting nations to seal their stones in a tamperproof container, with a document stating they were not mined in a war zone. It also requires better data collection from customs agencies...
...CHARGED. Peter Hartz, 65, former Volkswagen personnel director; with 44 counts of breach in trust in connection with a corruption scandal at Europe's largest automaker; in Braunschweig, Germany. State prosecutors allege that Hartz oversaw illegal payments of $2.4 million made without Volkswagen's knowledge to labor representative Klaus Volkert, who resigned soon after the investigation began last June. Hartz, who quit last July, denies wrongdoing but accepts the perks were in his "area of supervision." If convicted, he could face five years in jail...
...Foley Damage Assessment - So Far With its finger pointing and mishandling of the scandal, the Republican leadership has given already disaffected voters another reason to throw it out of power
...problem is weak government oversight of development--a sign, some complain, that Miami's sun-soaked complacency has addled its political leaders as well. "Planning is disdained as the enemy here," says Gihan Perera, director of the Miami Workers Center. Local anger boiled over recently at a housing scandal that Perera's group helped the Miami Herald expose: Miami-Dade's government housing agency paid millions of dollars to politically connected developers for low-income projects that were never built or were used to construct private condominiums instead. "This is a greedy city," says Yvonne Stratford, 52, an unemployed seafood...
...anxiety, the sex mentioned earlier is also very much prevalent, and sounds a little like this: "nice discreet guy could help you out." (Nov. 12, 9:27 pm) or "message me at harvjunior85" (Nov. 12, 9:35 p.m.). (Less successful solicitations sound like this: "YOU+ ME+ LAMONT TOILETS= SCANDAL...