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...brutality are rarely substantiated or punished. It says that of 639 inquiries of police mistreatment in 2006, a mere eight cases resulted in the accused being dismissed from the force. In 2005 - when Amnesty first sounded the alarm about the problem - 16 out of 663 investigations led to the ouster of accused cops. By contrast, there's been an explosion in cases and convictions of "outrage," an offense based on anything from a bystander protesting unjustified arrest or violent treatment of someone by police to a suspect slandering peace officers or other public officials. Out of 31,800 court cases...
Trading in the lucrative swaps - which insured banks against losses on loans backed by mortgage securities - began on Greenberg's watch. But he is likely to argue that only after his ouster in March 2005 did the company's troubled FP unit fail to put up sufficient collateral to cover potential losses from the increasing number of loans backed by subprime mortgages. "You want to make sure you don't have any unexpected surprises down the road," he told TIME in a recent interview...
...first major overseas trip as president, Barack Obama has a G-20 meeting, a NATO summit and a roundtable discussion in a Muslim country on the itinerary. But at a morning briefing the day before his departure - as reporters focused on the ouster of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner - Press Secretary Robert Gibbs didn't field a single question about the President's trip. It was a sign of how ubiquitous and rote presidential foreign travel has become. (See the 10 Ideas Changing the World Right...
...such as pomegranates. Jawad added that this approach would be more successful than a policy of eradication, which he said would be unrealistic. Though Afghanistan still faces major problems, Jawad said assistance from the United States has proved crucial in improving life there since the Taliban’s ouster. But he added future improvements rely just as heavily on U.S. support. “Success of [this] newest strategy depends on how much resources they can allocate,” he said...
...common with many Kennedy critics who have emerged from hibernation since Brown's announcement, Blaney is especially incensed by a remark the U.S. politician made back in 1971. In that year, Kennedy introduced a Senate resolution demanding the ouster of British military forces from Northern Ireland - or Ulster as the Irish called that part of the island. Said Kennedy: "Ulster is becoming Britain's Vietnam... The conscience of America cannot keep silent when men and women of Ireland are dying. Britain has lost...