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...Christmas that it simply makes sense to wait,” said Osasona, who passed up a weekend at home in Atlanta. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, members of the Woodbridge Society, an organization for Harvard’s international students, bonded through a Thanksgiving-kickoff party on Wednesday, dinner at Quincy House on Thursday, and a movie night in Lowell House on Saturday. According to Woodbridge Society board member Or Gadish ’10, the goal of the events was to share international cultures and to provide a sense of community to students studying far from home...
CCSU moves on to face 16th seed Tulsa in the second round on Wednesday...
...Following three and a half hours of questioning by investigating magistrates in Paris Wednesday, Chirac was formally placed under investigation in the case - a step in the French legal procedure tantamount to being named as a suspect and charged under other justice systems. The case arose from Chirac's 18-year reign as mayor of Paris prior to his presidential win in 1995. Along with several concurrent investigations still underway involving Chirac, the suspected embezzlement of municipal funds was allegedly part of a wider system to finance Chirac's political party, and provide salaries and services to party officials...
...tribunal's prosecutors responded by arguing that the past actions of the military court have no bearing on the tribunal. Court officials announced Wednesday that a ruling on Duch's appeal would be made at a later date. Meanwhile, the tribunal will be busy in coming months: Lawyers for the four other senior Khmer Rouge leaders now in detention have already submitted similar appeals or are planning to do so, court officials said. The actual trials of the five suspects - Duch; Pol Pot's second-in-command Nuon Chea; Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith...
...Anticipating his official designation in the case, Chirac arranged for an open letter to be published in Wednesday afternoon's Le Monde, in which he recalls authorizing the recruitment of project leaders for the city. Rejecting the suggestion he did anything improper, Chirac wrote that the positions were, "as legitimate as they were necessary," and duly approved by the City Council. In the letter, he details the workings of that hiring campaign in an attempt to dispel any notions of wrong-doing, to try to correct what he terms the "inexact, often caricatured, at times outrageous things that have been...