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...nation on earth have been sitting out the action. Major Japanese companies have not even participated in the bidding for reconstruction work in the devastated gulf country. Government leaders have warned Japanese firms against joining the rush for jobs lest they be seen as kajiba dorobo, or thieves who steal from a fire. "We won't take any initiative," says an official of a Japanese engineering company. "If Kuwait approaches us, we'll go. But for now we want to just wait...
...looked like time for Harvard to start warming up the bus, but Harvard made another run, cutting the lead to 68-61 on a Maher three-pointer. A Healey driving layup and Co-Captain Dina Hadrick's steal and conversion made it a one-point game, 70-69, with four minutes...
Moses then told the manager that the guards had stopped her because she is Black, she said. When Moses asked the manager why she had been suspected, he replied that she had probably intended to steal the CD, but later decided against it, according to her account...
...There's this profile that people have. You see that young Black people are in the store, you think they're there to steal. It's not just a Coop problem, it's a societal problem," Moses said...
...federal law allowed police agencies to keep assets seized from drug traffickers and money launderers. But not, of course, for personal use. Last week six members of an elite Los Angeles County sheriff's narcotics squad were convicted of conspiring to steal $48,000. They were acquitted of larceny on a grander scale: spending $1.4 million in confiscated cash on luxury cars, boats, jewelry and vacation homes...