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Managing Papuan Expectations after Handing Back Autonomy
My reflections are based on my tenyears of personal and professional experience of working at the Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Jayapura to advocate for the rights of the indigenous Papuans.2 This reflection has played an
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:24P
L.A. private equity billionaire may buy at least half of Borders
Borders, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February, will have about 270 superstores and about another 130 small-format stores. The firm had about 500 superstores when it filed for bankruptcy. Borders is actively developing a reorganization plan
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:24P
WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina |Rising Missouri River sends South
Traffic in and out was brisk as Highway Patrol troopers manned the main intersection to keep everyone moving, including the 70 trucks being used to bring dirt and manpower to work on the levee system. Two Blackhawk helicopters placed half-ton sandbags
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:23P
Trial date set for Dallas man in attempted capital murder case
A Dallas man who is accused of shooting at two officers during a drug bust last year now has a trial date. Judge Denn Whalen of the 70th District Court set the trial for Wesley Dale Knight, 28, the week of Oct. 17 after he was charged in June 2010 with
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:23P
Former Pius X basketball player sues Bangor police
Glenn Kerrigan and officer Michael Hunsicker came into Pius X High School in February 2010, brought the basketball player down to the principal's office and took him out of the building in handcuffs, the former student claims in a federal lawsuit.
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:22P
Former police chief gets jail
"He was aware the report would mislead," said Department of Justice Attorney Myesha Braden. "He undermined the system of justice." The report did not include the names of the suspects and also did not include mentions of phone conversations Nestor had
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:22P
Lower Saucon backtracks from gaming challenge
Those grants footed the bill for $25000 worth of ambulance equipment and $128000 to install devices that allow emergency personnel to change traffic signals from their vehicles. Then, on May 23, the township was awarded $30000 for a police vehicle and
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:22P
Man sues Fort Worth Diocese without knowing name of abuser
The Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese is faced with an unusual sex abuse lawsuit: A man living in Brazoria County says he was abused by a priest but doesn't know the clergyman's name. In a suit filed last week in Tarrant County,
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:22P
Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Reproductive Justice: What's the Real Problem?
As reproductive health and justice advocates, can we really stand behind the sentiment that motherhood should ever prevent anyone's success? These were the kinds of questions that my colleagues and I at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:22P
Holland asks Germany to lock up elderly Nazi fugitive
Vice Chairwoman of German liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) Birgit Homburger, left, with German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, on May 15, 2011. Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten wrote to his German counterpart yesterday
Updated: 06/01/2011 11:22P
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