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...bill is silent on that issue, and the Senate bill is expected to be as well. That would mean another fight from advocates for a retroactivity amendment. Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based reform group, asks: "If we've been doing something that's unfair for 23 years now, don't we have an obligation to address that unfairness...
...Despite its protests that it is being unfairly vilified, the insurance industry is far from ready to simply accept the reform proposals currently on the table. Most of its efforts are concentrated on defeating the creation of a public-health-insurance alternative primarily for Americans currently priced out of the private-insurance market. But the industry's opposition to Democratic reform proposals goes far beyond the public option, which it believes will have an unfair, government-afforded advantage over insurers, and the industry is quietly lobbying for legislative language changes that could have major consequences. (Read TIME's special report...
...Arnuk also asserts that co-location gives firms that can afford to do it an unfair advantage, because the exchange is "offering them things that the general investor does not get." (Firms pay for the server space they use: as little as $50,000 a year, but as much as $500,000 a month to co-locate at the NYSE and other exchanges, says Murray White, senior vice president of global technologies at the exchange...
...Saudi Arabia Allegations of Abuse Human-rights group Amnesty International has criticized Saudi Arabia for counter-terrorism policies that, the group says, rely heavily on secret arrests, torture and unfair trials--under which some 3,000 suspects remain detained. Amnesty representative Malcolm Smart said the abuses have been allowed to take place behind a "wall of secrecy" in part because of the West's dependence on Saudi...
...closing arguments of in bribery trial of former Rep. William Jefferson suggest that client of has been punished enough by losing his seat and becoming "the object of a national joke about money in the freezer," and besides, everyone in Congress is corrupt so isn't it a little unfair to single out this one guy just because his illegal demands for money were caught on tape...