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...Lumpur. Isa was suspended for six years after an internal party investigation found that he bought votes during UMNO elections last year. The most senior casualty so far in Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's anti-corruption campaign, Isa has 14 days to appeal the suspension. If it is upheld, he will be forced to resign from his ministership...
...agreed. The intense speculation about Pennzoil was part of the high-stakes legal battle the company has been waging with Texaco. In November a Houston jury ordered Texaco to pay Pennzoil $10.53 billion in damages for snatching Getty Oil away in a 1984 takeover battle. After a Houston judge upheld the jury's decision, Pennzoil and Texaco negotiators tried to forge an out-of-court settlement...
Your story on lobbying was an eye-opener. It says much about the state of our republic that so many former public officials can land private sinecures and then use these positions to undermine the policies they once upheld. In some countries, lobbyists would be called double agents. Eric Steel Oakland...
...Duehay’s victory was upheld, and the CCA-controlled council elected the city’s first female mayor, who dismissed the divisive superintendent...
However, the housing system slowly started to change in 1953, when the House Masters and deans decided that each House should lower its acceptance of first-choice applicants to 70 percent, rather than the 80 percent average that had long been upheld. The new rule was created as “the latest step in the plan to integrate Claverly Hall into the House system,” according to The Crimson—not specifically to address the increasing House homogeneity...