Word: settlements
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...differently. Wolf, 24, became the first blogger to be targeted by the government for refusing to comply with a U.S. grand jury subpoena. On Tuesday the disputed source material went live on Wolf's website, joshwolf.net, after he and his lawyers reached an agreement with prosecutors. According to the settlement, Wolf won't have to testify or identify the demonstrators shown in his videotape. Former Inmate # 98005-111 spoke with TIME's Laura Locke hours after his release...
...L.T.T.E. Peace Secretariat secretary-general Pulee Devan told TIME by phone from the Tigers' jungle base in Kilinochchi, in the north. "Fifty years' experience has dictated to us that there is no big difference who is in power in the capital. They have all failed to deliver any meaningful settlement to the Tamil people." Sri Lanka's Tamils have some valid grievances: Sinhalese chauvinism is evident in everything from innocuous conversations with money changers to the billboards that dot Colombo stating "One Country. One People." In the decades following independence, governments in Colombo progressively impinged on Tamil rights, forcing kids...
...Tigers' bloody insurgency has forced the government to the negotiating table more than once. But there things usually stall, in part because a real settlement would require the Tigers, and in particular longtime leader Prabhakaran, to concede that the group is not the sole representative of the Tamil people. Free elections in Sri Lanka's Tamil region would likely bring moderate Tamil parties to power, threatening the L.T.T.E.'s influence. There is no doubt Prabhakaran is a prophetlike figure for many Tamils, but his power stems as much from his cold-blooded elimination of political rivals and moderate Tamil leaders...
...Kathy’s research, such as her work on settlement behavior, fee-shifting rules, and other aspects of the civil justice system is notable for its originality and rigor,” Kagan said. “And her teaching, as Harvard students discovered when she visited here, is simply exemplary...
...court decision earlier this year appears to offer the squatters some hope. The Seventh Day Adventist church sought to remove residents from one of Fiji's oldest squatter settlements, on a steep hill and riverside land at Tamavua in Suva's northern suburbs. The church alleged it had legally purchased the squatters' home sites from local chiefs. But the squatters, known locally as "blackbirders" (Solomon Islanders brought to Fiji to work on plantations in the 1930s), argued that more than 40 years ago they were given permission by the chiefs to live on the land. Fiji High Court Justice Roger...