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...justice system last month abolished its jurisdiction. It remains unclear when new courts will be established, allowing the trial to resume. Steps Toward Justice SIERRA LEONE The U.N.-backed trial of 13 suspects indicted for war crimes committed during the 1991-2002 civil war opened in the capital, Freetown. Progovernment militia leaders were first to stand accused of atrocities, with rebels - including alleged backer Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia who is currently in exile in Nigeria - scheduled to follow. The opening marks the first time an international war-crimes tribunal has convened in the country where...
...Pforzheimer House, William F. Andress ’04, Melissa A. Eccleston ’04, Moira L. Hill ’04, Leslie Sierra Jamison ’04, Kate D. Nesin ’03-’04, Matthew N. Ocheltree ’04, Alexander A. Pollen ’04, Benjamin I. Schapira ’04 and Sylvia Yang ’04. Jyoti S. Kandlikar ’04 received an honorable mention...
...Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International, Indonesia ranked as the world's 12th most corrupt country, worse than economic basket cases such as Sierra Leone, Papua New Guinea and the Congo. Indonesia's legal system gets particularly low marks. In an IMF-sponsored report, a panel of Indonesian lawyers recently studied 500 bankruptcy cases in the country since 1998 and determined that about 30% of all verdicts were incorrect, either because judges misunderstood the law or disregarded it. Foreign bankers and investors often have trouble enforcing contracts in Indonesian courts. In one case, a court last year nullified a $180 million...
...chemicals and petroleum and on corporate profits above $2 million. But the Republican-led Congress allowed the fees to expire in 1995. Bush is the first President to oppose the levies, and last month Lautenberg and other Senate Democrats lost a narrow vote to reinstate them. In protest, the Sierra Club aired "Make Polluters Pay" TV ads in Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan--all swing states. And on April 15, tax day, activists in 25 states picketed post offices to object. "We went from polluters paying to citizens paying," says Oklahoma environmentalist Earl Hatley. "Now EPA doesn't have the money...
Bill and Rebecca Goldsmith are making a living from an idea that would probably get you laughed out of business school: running an Internet radio station commercial free. From their home in Paradise, Calif., in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, they operate Radioparadise.com a format-busting station that spins a tasteful mix of music ranging from the Beatles to Norah Jones to the Strokes. Fewer than 5,000 listeners tune in during peak times, but fans like it so much, they sent the couple $120,000 in contributions last year, covering the cost of bandwidth, song royalties and other...