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...representative scheme of university governance, we must accept the unavoidable fact that we will always create a class of governing students and one of governed students. And no matter how closely the former reports to the latter, no matter how democratic a process leads to the selection of those classes, they will always remain separated. Such division is inherently incompatible with the academic utopia of the undergraduate body, where utter equality of conditions is an imperative...
French authorities have repeatedly called on officials in Chad to respect presumptions of innocence in their case against six French humanitarian workers charged with trying to abduct 103 children - an operation Chadian investigators suspect may have been part of a clandestine adoption-for-pay scheme back in France. But each day brings additional allegations challenging the nature of the mission NGO Zoe's Ark claimed it was conducting in Chad...
...Opponents of the scheme said Able UK's plan to dredge a nearby estuary for a series of wind turbines - an addendum to the original ship-breaking application - would unearth sediment containing dangerous heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury, and toxic chemicals like dioxin. They also question Able UK's plans to bury asbestos and other toxins from the ships at the nearby Seaton Meadows landfill...
...survive in Barinas complains that the Chavez family lives like royalty. "The new leaders are the representatives of the new oligarchy," says opposition leader Leonardi Meza. Although there has been government corruption in Barinas, no evidence has surfaced implicating the family. In 2006, a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme was uncovered at the Ezequiel Zamora sugar-processing complex still construction near Sabaneta despite having been slated for completion in 2005. Only lower-level officials have been charged in the case...
...workers, three French journalists accompanying them, and seven Spanish and Belgian flight crew members on initial suspicions of "kidnapping and child trafficking". Outraged Chadian President Idriss Déby went so far as to accused the group of being "pedophile", and exploiting the refugee crisis in a scheme to sell children to adults willing to pay for adoption back in France...