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...team was coached by Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Institute Deputy Director J. Soffiyah Elijah and Clinical Instructor Dehlia I. Umunna...
What reform could dramatically remake America and become law by Christmas? Not health care. While a health care bill crawls through the Senate, bills of equal significance are speeding through the Banking and Finance committees of both chambers of Congress and will share the spotlight this week on Capitol Hill. And because of the odd politics of finance, and an aggressive behind-the-scenes push by the Obama Administration, real financial reforms have a better chance of becoming law by the end of the year than an overhaul of health care...
...around Indonesia amassed in central Jakarta on Sunday to show their support for the government's embattled anticorruption commission and two of its members who were recently detained by police. Hundreds turned up in the blistering heat to pressure the government to bring to justice those believed to control law-enforcement agencies in Indonesia - referred to by many now as the "legal mafia" - who are suspected of trying to frame several anticorruption officers, whose commission is referred to as the KPK, on corruption charges. "We have come to show our support for the KPK and the people in their fight...
...fight against corruption." The President admitted that he was fully aware of international criticism of the country's legal and judicial bodies. "Because of that we will continue reforming the police, the attorney general's office and the courts so there will be no more cases of corruption by law enforcers," he added...
...time when SBY hopes to attract $200 billion in foreign capital each year to improve the country's crumbling infrastructure, any delays in resolving this latest scandal could prove a serious setback. Anger is mounting toward those believed to be above the law (a giant poster of businessman Anggodo in a police uniform carried at the rally summed feelings up nicely) and is motivating people to take to the streets. "In terms of numbers the protests won't be like 1998 against [former President] Suharto but in terms of pressure it could get just as big," says Eep Saefulloh Fatah...