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...Laureys defends Houben's communication technique, saying he has tested the accuracy of his messages by asking him to name certain objects without the help of his therapist. "The videos are very unfortunate and a very bad representation of his condition," Laureys tells TIME. "He was ignored for many years and now he's going through that again by people who make judgments based on the videos...
...fraud unraveled last December when Satyam announced the $1.6 billion acquisition of two affiliated construction companies, Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties, run by Raju's two sons. Raju claimed the acquisitions were a good diversification strategy, and announced they would go ahead without shareholder approval. Investigators say Raju actually wanted to buy the companies because they held many of the illicitly acquired properties; absorbing them into Satyam could have allowed Raju to cover up his misdeeds indefinitely. But many of Satyam's foreign stakeholders, who owned 47% of the Nasdaq-listed company, grew suspicious and angry over the deal...
...price wars have gone nuclear. From Target's $3 coffeemakers to Best Buy's half-price washing machines to Staples's $350 laptops, the theme of this holiday shopping season is, without a doubt, "we sell for less." Even Wal-Mart's commitment to "every day" low prices isn't preventing it from going lower. An online skirmish with Amazon.com that started with $9 hardcover books (books normally sold for three times that amount) has dominoed into other categories, driving down prices on everything from mobile phones to Easy-Bake ovens. The deals are everywhere. (See pictures of expensive things...
...Truth commissions, which are set up by governments to let victims and perpetrators tell their stories without fear of retribution, have run into similar resistance around the world. In 2001, ethnic-minority lawmakers in the former Yugoslavia complained that a short-lived truth commission had appointed too many majority Serbs, which, they argued, was an inappropriate demographic to investigate massacres of minorities that took place during the 1990s. Some victims in South Africa claimed that nation's truth commission - set up to investigate massacres and disappearances of the country's majority blacks in the second half of the 20th century...
...army and the peacekeepers have basically dealt with the FDLR militarily without cracking down on their financial and political support networks," said Jason Stearns, a Congo expert who had helped to draft previous versions of the U.N. findings. "The report says this is a deeper problem than going after them with an army. These guys are colluding with military officials throughout the region - the head of intelligence in Burundi, senior army commanders, important gold traders." (Read: "A Glimmer of Hope in Africa...