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With the exchange rate hovering just below 90 yen to the dollar, and having risen to 87 on Wednesday after the U.S. cut interest rates, the Bank of Japan decided on Friday to cut its benchmark rate to 0.1%. The move was done on a near unanimous vote among policy makers. However, with its overnight rate already at 0.3%, it is unclear what such a small rate cut could achieve...
...governor, Vilsack signed into law a 2005 change that allowed convicted felons to vote after serving their sentences. Some 80,000 ex-cons became eligible to vote because of the change...
...When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society." - on why convicted felons who have served out their sentences should be allowed to vote, New York Times, June...
...Zeidi himself? It falls on the Baghdad press corps to keep up pressure on the Maliki government to give their brother reporter a fair hearing in court. With a major election coming up next week, there's reason to hope that the Prime Minister may make a magnanimous (and vote-catching) gesture toward Zeidi...
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, whose center-right majority has a slim Parliamentary majority, has ignored calls for early elections. Political observers say a budget vote slated for the coming days could undo his coalition, though paradoxically the violence may help him hold onto power as allies do not want a government collapse during the unrest...