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...development of the luxury Holyland residential towers on a prominent Jerusalem hilltop, which had originally been zoned for a hotel. Prosecutors are now alleging that Messer and Jerusalem's city architect at the time facilitated the approval of the much larger - and, some critics would say, much uglier - towers after receiving bribes from the developers...
...uglier ironies of Portillo's case is that he was elected in 1999 largely by promising to stand up for Guatemala's poor, especially its majority indigenous Maya. To have allegedly pinched millions in foreign aid intended for low-income students' textbooks - in a country that has Central America's lowest literacy rate - seems especially brazen. But as he entered his extradition hearing early Wednesday morning, dressed in an expensive suit, Portillo was smiling and waving to reporters like any good politician. As President, he knew all too well how Guatemala worked, but many of his countrymen now hope...
...Luntz urged them to attack "lobbyist loopholes" - items that were put into the financial-reform bill, as in the health care bill, largely to attract enough Democratic votes to break the GOP filibuster. Needing 60 votes has made the debate over every bill on Obama's agenda longer and uglier, which is exactly how the Republicans want...
...Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA). Dai, however, had plenty to say on the topic, in interviews and at fair-related events. By reacting so vitriolically to her presence - China's former ambassador to Germany Mei Zhaorong said, "We didn't come for a lesson on democracy" - China ensured that the uglier elements of its treatment of journalists and authors would be a focus of the fair. "The media is paying attention to us. We can speak freely," she told...
...Reina and other ALBA representatives insist the onus is on Micheletti and the coup leaders, who "are always using President Chávez and ALBA as scapegoats for their illegal actions." Either way, the game Zelaya and his foes are playing now at the Brazilian embassy promises to get uglier - not just for Honduras but for the hemisphere...