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…em—and in settings where democracy’s prospects are unclear, as with Ecuador, Hungary, and Kenya. The growing offensive against civil society is in many respects a tribute to the prominent role that NGOs have come to play in the political life of most coun- tries. An active civil...

Page 29 of 31 104 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 59, *100 [#101] crimes or crimes against children." 74! In Indiana, the plain language of its statute leaves open the possibility of a conferral right before formal charges to the extent that the statute includes two separate time fram...

…oth Olmert and Tzipi soon fell prey to the same self-defeating temptation that had worried me during the meandering war against Hizbollah. Our ground incursion began a few days into the operation. The intention was to stay for a few more days and then, responding to inevitable in...

…ons and other inter- national forums, subverting global human rights stan- dards and blocking precedent-setting actions against fellow despots. With the formation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Russia, China, and a number of Central Asian governments have come together...

…ober 2014, almost 2000 faculty, staff and student workers completed training sessions on both Title IX and the Violence Against Women Act, a measure which had been signed into law (a reauthorization) by President Obama in the early spring of 2013). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031538

…tence may have been significantly different.” Details of the journal emerged in a lawsuit brought in Florida by Epstein against Brad Edwards, a lawyer representing several alleged victims. Epstein alleges Edwards was linked to a "Ponzi scheme" run by a colleague, which lured inve...

…to believe and did in fact believe that Epstein and his attorneys knew of the seriousness of the criminal investigation against him and corresponded constantly with the United States Attorney’s Office in an attempt to avoid the filing of numerous federal felony offenses, which ef...

…dopted by Russia, are now being taken up in countries like Hungary and Poland. Democracies will also have to push back against Chinese censorship. The sheer size of China's econo- my gives Beijing the clout to insist on unreasonable, nonreciprocal, and often antidemocratic conce...

…for self-control. What this partial recipe tell us is that regardless of the situation, some individuals are inoculated against the pull of authority and group ideology and others are susceptible. If you missed the inoculation clinic in utero, you are more susceptible to temptati...

…ommerce than Harry Reems did. Would Larry Parrish prosecute them? When I asked Parrish, he said: “They’re not insulated against prosecution.” Not all the stories were flattering. Mike Royko complained in a syndicated article how depressing it was that after two hundred years of...

…from the Sinai. But after Sadat’s killing, Begin and those around him seemed more determined than ever to hold the line against the wider peace negotiations agreed with President Carter and Sadat at Camp David. At Begin’s insistence, Camp David had not proposed giving the Palesti...

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… Edwards vs Mr Jeffrey Epstein Dear Sirs: We are preparing an article about the calendaring today of Mr Edwards' claim against Mr Epstein for jury trial and the witness list which names Virginia Roberts and other young women who allege they were underage victims of Mr Epstein....

…pstein, saying he filed a frivolous lawsuit to get him to back down from representing the young women. All the lawsuits against Epstein said his modus operandi in the initial visit was the same: The girls were taken to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion and led upstairs to a spa room b...