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...biggest issue in Bangladesh in recent years: the role of the army in a democratically elected civilian government. Aside from pay, the jawans' biggest grievance is the practice of deputizing army officers to command units of the paramilitary border guards. The jawans want all such officers to be withdrawn. At one point, the mutineers threw a piece of paper outside the gates to the waiting journalists that read, "We've taken up arms today because we've been repressed by army officers for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Mutiny Challenges New Bangladesh PM | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...protest Israel’s actions, Dershowitz said. Dershowitz added that he does not oppose protesting Israel’s actions but said the college’s actions smacked of hypocrisy and anti-Semitism in light of other human-rights abusers around the world. Hampshire had not withdrawn its money from the State Street fund as of yesterday, according to a spokeswoman for the school. The college has $4 million invested in the fund, which represented about 20 percent of the school’s managed funds at the end of 2008. As of yesterday, Dershowitz and the college...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dershowitz Defends Investments in Israel | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...animosity between these two competitors, the private Clearinghouse and the public Fed, ensured the failure of the Fed’s intervention in March 1933. At the beginning of March, $700 million were withdrawn from banks, plunging the Dow to only 50 points. In an effort to avoid further turmoil, New York Fed Governor George L. Harrison contacted Clearinghouse Chairman George W. Davison about declaring a bank holiday. With no incentives to act despite the damage this holiday might do to bank reputations, and with much criticism from an increasingly populist Congress, the Clearinghouse had no reason to partner with...

Author: By Noah M. Silver | Title: Bridging the Capitalist Divide | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

According to the terms of the agreement, "all non-Shari'a laws" have been abrogated in Malakand. Security forces "will only act if fired upon by militants." And if the "writ of the state is restored," the army's 12,000 troops will be withdrawn from the valley. The agreement, which enjoys the support of President Asif Ali Zardari and the army, came about after talks with Islamist leader Sufi Mohammed - Fazlullah's father-in-law and rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Shari'a Pact: Giving In to the Taliban? | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

Madoff, Bernard • $15,000,000 was suspiciously withdrawn from bank account of by wife of • 90-year-old is forced to go back to work as a result of having been totally ripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

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