Saeed Minhas I was passing through various streets in Toledo, Ohio and wondering what is the authenticity of the pollsters and newspapers in this country where all the pollsters and newspaper’s editorial boards have declared the elections almost over two week prior to elections. Because what I was finding amongst the voters here in Toledo, […]
Charitable Gifts Increase Despite Credit Crisis
Schwab Charitable, one of the country’s largest and fastest growing national donor-advised funds with 12,000 donors and nearly $2 billion in assets, announced today that grants to charities during the third quarter of 2008 were up 12 percent from 2007 levels. The increased giving, which comes as turmoil on Wall Street has cut contributions […]
Hurricane Sarah
The Look-Before-You-Leap presidential campaign is at it again: “Do as I say, not as I do.” It amuses and confuses me as I watch the Republican Party writhe and wriggle around in the mud. It’s not so much the Gulf Coast hurricane wreckage in which they’re mired, but in the dialogue (and probably their own […]
Vice Mayor Plans to Declare Pines City under the State Of Calamity
Baguio City – The city government which had been under fire for sloppiness in handling the garbage crisis, is planning to declare the City of Pines under the state of calamity. Vice Mayor Daniel Farinas in a statement given to the media over the weekend that he was prompted to believe that putting the city […]
Secrecy and Justice at the ICTY
By Simon Jennings in The Hague Lingering claims that the former prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, struck a deal with Belgrade which led to controversial Serbian military documents being kept under wraps have fuelled a debate on whether there should be greater transparency of proceedings at the court. Tribunal-watchers have […]
Mujahid demanded release of HASINA, KHALEDA and NIJAMI
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami was sent to jail yesterday after being produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s (CMM) Court of Dhaka in connection with the Gatco graft case. Nizami was arrested from his Moghbazar residence at about 11:15pm on Sunday following receipt of his the arrest warrant copy issued earlier on May 15 in […]