Word: stolen
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Early last month, a Zurich-based bank, Julius Baer, filed suit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claiming a disgruntled ex-employee had passed stolen internal documents to Wikileaks, a venue for anonymous whistle-blowers to post allegations of corporate or government misconduct. The site says those materials detail money laundering and tax evasion at Julius Baer's Cayman Islands branch. At the bank's request, Judge Jeffrey White issued an injunction sealing Wikileaks' U.S. address...
...Housman gets the ball stolen, and the crowd is eating into Housman right now. Back on the other end, Columbia gets ANOTHER quick basket. Harvard has another turnover (This time, compliments of #55) and Columbia drives it back down the court.....and the Crimson have to foul to prevent another fast break basket. Timeout, Amaker. [Columbia 47, Harvard...
...government and Parliament did. There are more than 14 million people - migrants from many countries and their children - whose families were not even living in Australia when the events being apologized for took place. Why should they say sorry? What about the thousands of British children who were stolen from their country during World War II, many of whom suffered privation or abuse in Australia? Have they received an apology or compensation? James Taylor, Frankston, Victoria...
...sorry to see "Australia Says Sorry" on the cover of TIME. Not that it is wrong to say sorry for injustices when they have occurred. However, there is no proof that the "stolen generations" were actually stolen from their families. Authorities in Australia have been unable to name even 10 stolen children. New PM Rudd has grabbed at an opportunity to get global attention by blaming Australians for injustices that are a myth. Former PM John Howard expressed regret but did not say "sorry" because there was, and still is, no proof that Aboriginal children were stolen. Welfare organizations only...
...authorities - but not, it turns out, of its spies. Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, paid as much as $7 million to a former employee of a trust controlled by the LGT Group, a bank owned by the principality's royal family. In return, the BND received stolen computer discs containing names of people with funds in Liechtenstein. The U.S. and U.K. have made their own deals, and Germany has offered its information to other interested governments...