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...secretary for the Foundation For the Future, a grant-making organization run by former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim. A controversial figure in Malaysia, Ibrahim spent five years in prison on corruption and sodomy charges before the latter conviction was overturned in September...
...went on, it became clear that more had gone wrong than was originally disclosed. Some 1.2 tons of radioactive water used to cool the reactors had spilled, the company suspects, from a spent-fuel pool and into the nearby ocean. Tokyo Electric also announced that 100 drums containing radioactive solid waste were toppled, and some radioactive material was detected in one of the main exhaust pipes that emit the plant's treated emissions into the open air. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe criticized the company for failing to respond quickly enough in the quake's aftermath. Tokyo Electric President Tsunehisa Katsumata...
...president of the foundation is controversial political figure Anwar Ibrahim, who spent five years in prison on corruption charges and was later convicted of sodomy before the Malaysian Supreme Court overturned the second conviction, prompting his release in September 2004. Both Tan and Ibrahim are members of the People’s Justice Party, which has in the past clashed with Malaysia’s largest political party, the United Malays National Organization...
Perhaps I ought to have been unfazed by Irish wetness. I've (more or less) survived Bostonian weather for the past two years, after all. And I'm intimately familiar with decidedly aquatic environs, one might say, given the many hours I've spent in Blodgett Pool for water polo practice...
...Such opposition riles Ilir Zherka, executive director of D.C. Vote, a group that advocates for D.C. suffrage. With a majority of Democratic Senators supporting their position, Zherka and D.C. Vote have spent the past few weeks lobbying Republicans to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to prevent a filibuster. "We think that would be unconscionable in this case," says Zherka, evoking the more contentious civil rights debates of the 1960s. "There hasn't been a filibuster attempt on a voting-rights act since the segregation era." Of course, the bill first needs to come up for debate. Sen. Harry Reid...