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DIED Two days after losing a bid for re-election as mayor of Jackson, Miss.--and four days before the start of his third trial for demolishing a suspected drug den without a warrant--Frank Melton, 60, succumbed to heart failure. A polarizing figure, Melton was known for patrolling Jackson's streets with a police badge and guns even though he was not a licensed officer...
...Telecommunications Management” on a list of “cost saving measures.” While it may seem as though only a portion of students are affected by this cut, the impact on the lives of Quad residents is significant enough to warrant the attention of the Harvard community. This is not an issue of convenience; this is an issue of safety...
...However, European consumer group BEUC says Intel has wrought enough damage to warrant a collective court action for compensation. "Consumer choice is the heartbeat of a competitive economy," BEUC Director General Monique Goyens said in a statement. "Intel should be liable to compensate the victims of its illegal practices. Consumers have been paying too much for their computers and they should be compensated...
...This week, France's senior investigating magistrate, Françoise Desset, ruled that a case brought by the anticorruption organization Transparency International against three African leaders had sufficient merit to warrant a full judicial investigation. The complaint accuses the trio - Gabon's President Omar Bongo, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, and Equatorial Guinea leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema - of pillaging their impoverished nations and treating state money as their personal wealth to finance acquisitions in France. The ruling means Desset can use her judicial authority to examine banking and other records to determine the origins of funds...
...pragmatic way. No longer are the choices in class between doodling in a notebook and paying attention; now we have an entire workstation at our fingertips. We can e-mail, organize, and update away while a professor is explaining easy or boring material that presumably doesn’t warrant full attention...