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...about or they are going to get so sued by • excuse offered by for quitting is - as is so much of what passes the lips of - of questionable veracity • explanation by that, as President, unfair ethical allegations against would be dealt with by the (nonexistent) "Department of Law" • Fox News contributor is unimpressed - "the woman is inarticulate, undereducated ... She just begs for adjectives like flaky and wacky ... (she) has no credentials for any job" - by • self-pitying Facebook page of • Shannyn Moore says "Bring it on!" to • "whining" about unfavorable media coverage used...
...clear that security alone is but a means to an end. "The point of security," he says, "is to enable governance ... My metric is not the enemy killed, not ground taken: it's how much governance we've got." Decent governance, the thinking goes - providing the rule of law and economic opportunity - will persuade those who take up arms because they have no other economic alternative to stop fighting. And those who don't use words like governance agree. "If people have work," says Mohammad Ismael, a 58-year-old Kabul resident, "I don't think they will fight...
...Fighting corruption has been a top priority of the current administration, with defenders of SBY, as the President is known, quick to point out that even an in-law of the president was jailed for corruption. Still, legislation that could weaken the Corruption Court, where the KPK's cases are tried, is weaving its way through the Parliament, raising doubts about how long the current battle against corruption on multiple levels can be sustained. President Yudhoyono maintains that the fight will continue into his next five years but some fear he may lack the necessary tools to be effective...
...have Rio Tinto's point man on the iron-ore price talks arrested now, on charges of violating the state-secrets law, stunned Canberra - as well as much of the foreign business community in China. "People here are intensely interested to see if there's any substance to these charges, and to what extent the government will make them public," said the director of one foreign-business association in China, who did not want to speak on the record. "If this is seen as political, it could obviously have a chilling effect." A Rio spokeswoman said the company "is aware...
...state-secrets law China invoked is notoriously murky. Lawyers and human-rights groups have long said the government uses it capriciously in order to silence its perceived "enemies." In 1999, for example, Beijing used the same law to arrest Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, now living in exile in the U.S. The crime for which she spent more than five years in prison: clipping a newspaper article in China and sending it to her husband...