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...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the shelling of the U.N. compound "an outrage" and demanded a full investigation. The bombardment occurred shortly before the Secretary-General was to meet with Israeli officials to plead for an end to what he called the "unbearable" conflict in Gaza. Diplomatic niceties were not much in evidence, however. The shelling puts a further strain on already tense relations between the U.N. and Israel. Relief officials of the world body in Gaza have strongly criticized the Israeli action for its humanitarian toll, and Israelis are generally suspicious of an organization they accuse of long...
...once powerful pol submitted her resignation on Thursday, the same day, as it turned out, that dozens of elected officials from across the county gathered at a previously scheduled event to promote honest government and take a new ethics pledge. McCarty wrote in a memo that she expected to plead guilty next week and admitted that she had engaged in "criminal acts - something for which I should be prosecuted and for which I bear full responsibility." She did not say anything about the alleged role of her husband, who has not commented on being charged with misprision of felony...
Critics of Guantánamo say that after years of alleged torture and abuse, detainees aren't competent to plead guilty, as the five men are trying to do. Disputes over issues like that make it unlikely the proceedings will wrap up before the Inauguration on Jan. 20--which will complicate Obama's task of closing the facility and ending an embarrassing chapter in the war on terrorism. In any event, the military judge, Army Colonel Stephen R. Henley, refused to accept the guilty pleas. He said he needed first to resolve the question of whether a plea--instead...
Many Americans may associate the complete end of slavery with the American Civil War over a century ago. But in some parts of the world, this is not true—not even in the United States. The two authors of the recently published book “To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves” spoke in a public forum moderated by Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium last night. Kevin Bales, a leading expert on modern-day slavery, and Zoe Trodd...
...taxpayers can relax about that imposing figure. Whether it's donor fatigue or anger that the Big Three to a large extent brought this upon themselves, there simply isn't the political will in Washington to pass a comprehensive rescue plan. When they returned to Congress last week to plead for help, the automakers asked for $34 billion in order to avoid bankruptcy. Most economists agree that if even one of the Big Three - Chrysler, General Motors or Ford - were to file for Chapter 11, it would have a potentially crippling cascade effect on the economy. The automakers and their...