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Tuesday - January 15, 2008 - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -
On his next to last day of his Middle East tour, President Bush said Tuesday he
hopes that as OPEC sets production levels, the oil cartel will consider the negative
effect high oil prices are having on the U.S. economy. Bush said he spoke with
Saudi King Abdullah about oil prices, which recently surged past $100 a barrel.
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January 11, 2008 - CAPE TOWN, South Africa - South
Africa's national police commissioner, Jackie
Selebi, is facing corruption charges, prosecutors said Friday. The National
Prosecuting Authority said the charges related to Selebi's "generally corrupt
relationship" with Glen Agliotti, a convicted drug trafficker. Selebi has
consistently protested his innocence. Selebi also holds the largely ceremonial
post of Interpol president, and tried to block the move in Pretoria's High Court
but the judge dismissed the application. On Tuesday, armed police arrested Johannesburg's
top prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who led the probe into Selebi, and hauled him away
in handcuffs. Nel is due in court Monday on charges of defeating the ends of justice.
The cases have raised tensions between the country's two top law enforcement agencies,
which are spending more time fighting each other, than conducting normal business.
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Selebi was a representative of the World Federation of Democratic
Youth in Budapest, Hungary from 1983 - 1987. Thereafter he was elected Head of
the ANC Youth League and member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC
in 1987. In 1991 he was responsible for the repatriation of ANC exiles and in
1993 was appointed Head of the Department of Welfare of the ANC. Selebi was elected
Honourable Member of Parliament during the 1994 elections. In 1995, Selebi was
appointed South Africa's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United
Nations, Geneva. Switzerland.[1] In 1998 he got a Human Rights Award from the
International Service for Human Rights.
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Latest United States Supreme Court Decisions
JOHN
R. SAND & GRAVEL CO. v. UNITED STATES
No. 06-1164. Argued November 6, 2007 -- Decided January 8, 2008
ARAVE,
WARDEN v. HOFFMAN, MAXWELL
No. 07-110. Decided January 7, 2008
WRIGHT
v. VAN PATTEN
No. 07-212. Decided January 7, 2008
WATSON,
MICHAEL A. v. UNITED STATES
No. 06-571. Argued October 9, 2007 -- Decided December 10, 2007
KIMBROUGH,
DERRICK v. UNITED STATES
No. 06-6330. Argued October 2, 2007 -- Decided December 10, 2007
GALL,
BRIAN M. v. UNITED STATES
No. 06-7949. Argued October 2, 2007 -- Decided December 10, 2007
CSX
TRANSPORTATION, INC. v. GA STATE BD. OF EQUALIZATION
No. 06-1287. Argued November 5, 2007 -- Decided December 4, 2007
LOGAN,
JAMES D. v. UNITED STATES
No. 06-6911. Argued October 30, 2007 -- Decided December 4, 2007
ALLEN
v. SIEBERT
No. 06-1680. Decided November 5, 2007
BD.
OF ED. OF THE CITY OF NY v. TOM F.
No. 06-637. Decided October 10, 2007
Other Recent Cases
Case-Notes:
In ARAVE,
WARDEN v. HOFFMAN, MAXWELL the
Supreme Court entered a per curiam order in favor of Respondent Maxwell Hoffman.
He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. See State v. Hoffman,
123 Idaho 638, 851 P. 2d 934 (1993). Hoffman sought federal habeas relief on the
grounds that, inter alia, his counsel had been ineffective during both pretrial
plea bargaining and the sentencing phase of his trial.
After abandoning his claim that his counsel was ineffective during plea bargaining
the State agreed to withdraw its petition to the Supreme Court, so that he may
proceed with the resentencing ordered by the District Court.
Monday - January 14, 2008 - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court oral
argument for this week begins on Monday: 06-1082 VIRGINIA V. MOORE and 06-1463
PRESTON V. FERRER. Tuesday, January 15, 2008: 06-1646 UNITED
STATES V. RODRIQUEZ and 06-11543 BEGAY V. UNITED STATES. Wednesday January
16, 2008: 06-937 QUANTA COMPUTER V. LG ELECTRONICS and 06-1413 MEADWESTVACO
CORP. V. IL DEPT. OF REVENUE
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Tuesday - January 15, 2008 - WASHINGTON - The House is back in
session today. The Senate is in pro forma session only. A pro forma session is
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is conducted. It is held usually to satisfy the constitutional obligation that
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Friday - January 11, 2008 - WASHINGTON - President Bush spoke
to the media today, as he stood with President Shimon Peres of Israel, and Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport. The
President concluded his two-day visit to Israel with a visit to Yad Vashem, the
Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, and the ruins of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee.
The
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President Bush will welcome President Abdullah Gul of Turkey to
the White House on January 8, 2008, for his first visit to Washington as President.
On January 9 , 2008, President Bush arrives in Israel and meets with Israel's
prime minister, Ehud Olmert, and president, Shimon Peres. On January 10, 2008,
Bush visits the West Bank to meet with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas,
and prime minister, Salam Fayyad, at their headquarters in Ramallah. On January
11, 2008, Bush is back in Israel to meet with former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair, now a Middle East peace envoy. Then Bush travels to Kuwait to meet with
the emir, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah. On January 12, 2008, in Kuwait Bush meets
with U.S. troops at Camp Arifjan and receives updates on the situation in Iraq
from the top U.S. commander, Gen. David Petraeus, and the U.S. ambassador to Iraq,
Ryan Crocker. He also meets with Kuwaiti women. Bush then travels to Bahrain to
meet with King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. On January 13, 2008, Bush visits the
U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain, and then travels to the United Arab Emirates
to meet with the president, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and gives a speech
in Abu Dhabi on freedom in the region. On January 14, 2008, Bush visits Dubai
and then travels to Saudi Arabia to meet with King Abdullah. On January 15, 2003,
Bush is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for meetings. On January 16, 2008, Bush is in
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to meet with President Hosni Mubarak before returning
to Washington.
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Tuesday - January 15, 2008 - DETROIT, Michigan
- As the Republican candidates made their final pitches, Tuesday's primary is
open and since the state Democratic Party was stripped of all their delegates
by the Democratic National Party, Democrats and many independents may decide to
weigh in on the GOP primary, all to McCain's advantage. The state is designated
60 delegates to the Republican National Convention in September, but the national
party also penalized Michigan Republicans half that number when the state legislature
violated party rules and changed the primary date to January 15, 2008.
Yahoo Election
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Friday, January 11, 2008 - CHARLOTTE, North Carolina
- Bank of America said Friday it will buy Countrywide Financial for $4.1 billion
in stock. The deal will rescue the Countrywide, country's biggest mortgage lender,
from its troubles, and further expands the financial services of Bank of America,
the nation's largest consumer bank. The
acquisition will make Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. the nation's biggest
mortgage lender and loan servicer.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - BLAIRSVILLE,
Georgia - Monday, authorities found the body and remains of 24-year-old
Meredith Emerson, a missing hiker just hours after a judge denied bond to the
Gary Michael Hilton, 61. Hilton is accused of kidnapping her in the mountains
of northern Georgia. Investigators were also examining whether the death and the
disappearance of two elderly hikers in October in North Carolina were related.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - WASHINGTON - Almost
exactly a year before George W. Bush hands over the reins of power in Washington
D.C. to whomever his successor turns out to be, he is embarking on his first trip
as President to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Highlights of President
Bush's upcoming trip to the Middle East, according to the planned schedule as
outlined by the White House: January 9 , 2008 - Arrives in Israel. Meets with
Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, and president, Shimon Peres; January 10,
2008 - Visits the West Bank to meet with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas,
and prime minister, Salam Fayyad, at their headquarters in Ramallah; January 11,
2008 - In Israel to meet with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now a
Middle East peace envoy. Lays a wreath at the Israel's official Holocaust memorial,
Yad Vashem. Travels to Kuwait to meet with the emir, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah;
January 12, 2008 - In Kuwait to meet with U.S. troops at Camp Arifjan and receive
updates on the situation in Iraq from the top U.S. commander, Gen. David Petraeus,
and the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker. He also meets with Kuwaiti women.
Travels to Bahrain to meet with King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa; January 13, 2008
- Visits the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, based in Bahrain. Travels to the United Arab
Emirates to meet with the president, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and gives
a speech in Abu Dhabi on freedom in the region; January 14, 2008 - Visits Dubai
and then travels to Saudi Arabia to meet with King Abdullah; January 15, 2003
- In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for meetings; January 16, 2008 - In Sharm el-Sheikh,
Egypt, to meet with President Hosni Mubarak before returning to Washington.
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law - law - n.: Today
the word law has various meanings or senses. Often law refers
to a set of rules and principles of conduct, action or procedure established
and formally recognized as binding by custom, agreement, or enforced by a controlling
authority; a system of law and order; administration of justice giving effect
to the laws of a community, a legal system, such as by judicial or legislative
decision, enforced by a political authority; courts, judges, codes, cases, law
suits, legal action or proceedings; litigation. The condition of social order
and justice created by adherence to such a system: a breakdown of law and civilized
behavior. [The Middle English word law, evolved from the Old English
lagu, which derived from the Old Norse lagu, variant of lag,
meaning that which is laid down.] Often also refers to agents or agencies involved
in or responsible for enforcing the law. Or, the science or study of law; Jurisprudence;
the knowledge, nature, use, and effects of laws and legal systems within society
(the politics of law). Includes the profession of a lawyer or an attorney; the
legal profession (the practice of law); and law enforcement officer, police.
Occasionally, an impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted for established
judicial procedure: frontier law or taking the law into (one's)
own hands - handing out justice as one sees fit. More on
Law.
encyclopedia - en-cy-clo-pe-di-a - n.:
A comprehensive reference work or compendium of knowledge, containing
articles either on a wide range of general subjects (attempting to cover
all fields) or on numerous aspects of a particular specialized field
(aiming to be very comprehensive in a particular field). Print editions
of encyclopedias (typically a large set of books) have usually been
arranged alphabetically.The Medieval Latin word encyclopaedia,
meaning general education course, derived and evolved from the alteration
of Greek enkuklios paideia, meaning general education: enkuklios,
circular, general, cyclical, periodic, ordinary; + paideia,
education (from pais, paid-, child). Early copyists of Latin
manuscripts took this phrase to be a single Greek word, enkuklopaedia,
with the same meaning. The Greek words then became the New Latin word
encyclopaedia, later coming into general English use with the
meaning and sense of a "general course of instruction".] The
modern type of encyclopedia (with an alphabetical arrangement and bibliographies)
is known to have been established by John Harris with his Lexicon
technicum (1704). Perhaps the most famous print encyclopedia, the
Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published in three volumes
(1768 through 1771). Originally published in Edinburgh by Adam and Charles
Black, in later years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica grew in
size and reputation and was published in the United States when the
trademark and publication rights were sold (after the 11th edition)
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