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...Beijing certainly isn't backing off. Earlier this month, China announced it would proceed with a trial period allowing domestic financial institutions to experiment with short selling and margin trades (using borrowed money to invest). The decision came, ironically enough, after the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission had for a time banned short selling of a variety of financial stocks - a controversial move that critics believe was a simple case of finding a scapegoat in the midst of market chaos. "It was a little signal that Beijing has a plan - a slow, methodical plan to reform their markets - and they...
Separating fact from fiction can be a difficult balancing act, but playwright Anne Washburn has impressively smudged that division, leaving an image of the fantastical nature of evil in its wake. Based on the trial of former Romanian dictators Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and held together by a thick mixture of absurdity and Eastern European accents, the American Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of “The Communist Dracula Pageant” creates an image of madness that is both entertainingly and shockingly outlandish.The players will perform this unbelievable truth through Nov. 9. The audience is told...
...After obtaining assurances from the local officials in Somalia that they'd be put on trial and that their human rights would be respected, we delivered them to the custody of local authorities," said French Defense Ministry spokesman General Christian Baptiste. "This operation is sending a message to pirates in the region that continuing their activity will be getting more dangerous and expensive for them...
...areas, and to scour the area for pirates before they strike. Last April, French forces had stormed the luxury cruiser Le Ponant to rescue 30 vacationers and crew members taken hostage by Somali pirates. Six of those pirates, plus six others captured after another French hostage intervention, now await trial in Paris...
...difference between the captives taken for trial in Paris and those handed over in Puntland, says Baptiste, is that French law allow those who have attacked French citizens to be tried, whereas its jurisdiction would not easily stretch to pirates waiting to strike in far-off international waters. And while Baptiste does not say as much, there's reason to believe that the French may have learned enough in the course of interrogating the nine to make it politically dangerous for their warlord masters to set them free. "We know who the pirates are, where they come from, what clan...