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Rosenbaum would be the first person to face federal organ-trafficking charges in the U.S. According to investigators, he called himself a "matchmaker" who connected those in need of a transplant with those in need of cash. Rosenbaum allegedly found sellers in Israel, where a network of operatives targeted recent immigrants to the country. He is said to have paid donors an average of $10,000 for their services and charged recipients more than ten times that amount...
...extraordinarily high levels [June 29]. Timothy Geithner says: Remember, this is a crisis born in part of the fact that households around the world took on too much debt. Wrong. Households in the U.S. took on too much debt, and the banks just encouraged them. We've got to face the music, but should not forget who provided the tune. Heinz Lichius, LAGESBÜTTEL, GERMANY
...Weighing Options In the face of pressure, Rajapaksa has hardened his position, interpreting criticism as a product of either LTTE propaganda or neocolonial sermonizing. He rejects the U.N.'s civilian-casualty figures and insists that conditions in the camps are good. But he has refused - even after declaring victory - to allow the press or international observers to verify those claims. No journalists or U.N. agencies have been permitted into the former war zone (with the exception of an entourage flying over it with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon), and journalists are allowed into the camps only on government-sponsored...
...Difficult to Read That lack of conviction has angered Rajapaksa's opposition and deeply troubles Sri Lanka's peace activists, who worry that Tamils may face even worse repression and hardship than they did before the war. Their original concerns - for the protection of Tamil language and culture and self-governance in Tamil-majority areas - are not even on the agenda...
...Washington Speculators Face Fresh Scrutiny Federal regulators are weighing whether to impose restrictions on energy speculators, whom some have blamed for triggering the wild fluctuations in crude-oil prices over the past year. From its peak of $145 in July 2008, the price of a barrel of crude plummeted to about $35 in January before rebounding to almost $70 this summer. Some analysts deny that futures-trading has driven the swings, noting that commodity-price volatility is a normal by-product of difficult economic times...