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Grainne Walsh will never forget the men who assaulted her. She often sees them walking the streets of Dublin - in their police uniforms. Although the Irish government paid some €50,000 in compensation to the young fashion designer, the officers who assaulted her were never disciplined. Only scant details of other such incidents are ever published. But according to Father Peter McVerry, a Jesuit priest and activist who tracks the cases, in the past five years police have paid out more than €6 million to settle cases involving questionable conduct of the police, or gardaí. And last...
Even with the secret police watching, there are always recruiters circling around the madrasahs. An Islamist militant told TIME that teenage volunteers who want to enlist these days in the Taliban are taken first in small groups to Pakistan's lawless tribal lands, where they are given a scant few weeks of weapons training and are assigned to hit U.S. targets inside Afghanistan. Because they are so inexperienced, martyrdom is only a few weeks away; these youngsters are usually the first to be killed...
Because of a scant written record of Estrada’s political views, Senate Democrats demanded access to internal memos Estrada wrote during his tenure in the U.S. Solicitor General’s office...
...scant few replied to the letter Franken sent, but the former Saturday Night Live cast member guessed that assistants were the likely scribes of such correspondence...
...kingdom?according to the Nepalese calendar it is currently the year 2060?preserves a system of feudal landlords, bonded labor and a medieval level of destitution. The Asian Development Bank estimates that 42% of the 26 million population lives below the poverty line?and Nepal's leaders have made scant effort to address the gap between the impoverished many and the privileged few. A Hindu god-king ruled Nepal as an absolute monarch until 1989. Under the current system?constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy?revolutionary ideology has taken hold. In a population living mostly in squalor, the most popular political...