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While the decision on who will replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate has been thrown into chaos with the arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, the speculation over who will fill another prominent Senate vacancy has temporarily been overshadowed. But the question of who will replace New York Senator Hillary Clinton, Obama's choice for Secretary of State, is shaping up as an even more intriguing drama of garden-variety politics and star power...
...rape, murder and kidnapping are rife. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Afghan human rights organizations such as Samimi's have documented extortion rackets run by former warlords and militia-run prisons where captives are held for ransom. Afghan journalists covering their crimes have been harassed by police or thrown in jail. Last year Samimi received a phone call from General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a U.S. ally who was appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai as Army Chief of Staff, threatening to have her raped "by 100 men" if she continued investigating a rape case in which he was implicated...
...starvation and torture by her own government. “Instead of going to school, me and my siblings had to go up to the mountain and remove branches from pine trees in order to eat them,” said Jo, whose father was accused of treachery and thrown into jail, along with his pregnant wife, by the North Korean government because of his ties to South Korea. Won Myong Hong, a Harvard Business School student originally slated to speak at Friday’s event too, had his remarks precluded when Jo’s story ran well...
...Amethyst Initiative, though outspoken and prominent, these 120 presidents do not speak for the over 1500 colleges in America. Perhaps frustrated by their inability to reduce binge drinking and the related harms on their campuses, they have prematurely thrown in the towel. Their efforts would be better spent in a broader discussion about what needs to be done to improve the situation...
...expected it would come and when there would be hundreds more braced for confrontation inside the disputed building - the Israeli police and military averted the first threat. The eviction went off relatively smoothly, although eight people were slightly injured, one of them a police officer who had acid thrown in his face by a settler militant. But the extremists delivered on their promise to vent their rage on Palestinian innocents. (See images of West Bank settlers battling eviction...