Word: specializing
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...have a hard time finding another that pays as much. Or maybe you need to move to find that new job, but you're stuck with a house you can't sell. Or maybe your marriage breaks up, and you have to liquidate your assets at today's prices." (Special Report: "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis...
...right direction. Shortly after South Korean President Lee Myung Bak took office last year, he launched a program to improve the services sector by increasing financial assistance to targeted businesses and by reducing red tape. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is undertaking his own deregulation program, with a special focus on Taiwan's biggest trading partner, China. Ma believes that sectors of Taiwan's economy, such as tourism and finance, have been stunted by the island's political standoff with Beijing. (China considers Taiwan a renegade province.) Ma is pushing for an agreement with China that would allow for free...
...Days before the conflict finished, though, the government of then President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah asked the U.N. to help set up a process to bring the worst offenders to justice. Out of that plea was formed the Special Court for Sierra Leone, a first of its kind: a collaboration between international and national justice and, unlike similar courts set up after wars in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, one established on the soil where the crimes took place. (See pictures of the fallout in Congo by James Nachtwey...
...militias have already been convicted. The court's last case is the trial of Taylor, who initially fled to Nigeria under his amnesty agreement but is now being held in the Hague. Taylor's trial was moved there for security reasons. After Wednesday's judgment, the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Stephen Rapp, spoke to TIME's Africa bureau chief Alex Perry by phone from the court's offices in Freetown...
...Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice) wasn't quite himself. This didn't stop a number of recipients from ringing Straw's office to ask if his predicament had been solved. Their calls were met with bafflement. Straw has not recently visited Lagos. Moreover, says his special adviser via text message, when he last did so "to the best of my knowledge he never lost his wallet!" (See a story about the Alicia Keys MySpace phishing controversy...