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986), cert. denied. 479 U.S. 987 (1986). 1987: Sweet sentenced lawyer Ilan Reich to a prison term for securities fraud, against the urging of 32 of Reich's friends, clients and former partners who wrote letters on Reich's behalf. Sweet cautioned: "A breach of trust at this level...requires a jail term

the city violated the First Amendment rights of a group that wanted to temporarily rename part of a Manhattan street in support of independence for East Timor. New York Times, Nov. 5, 1999; East Timor Action Network, Inc. v. City of New York, 71 F. Supp. 2d 334 1999). 1999: Sweet found that an arbitrator

places where far more is at stake, like resource-rich Indonesia. By the time the Indonesian occupation

decades more. Near the end of his time in office, Kissinger and his new boss Gerald Ford pre-approved the Indonesian dictator Suharto's invasion of East Timor in 1975, an illegal act of aggression again carried EFTA00853163 out with weapons made in and furnished by the US. Suharto had a long history as a

y put it, China will become old before it becomes rich. For the youth, who are culturally enjoined to t

r capita of $49,000 and $35,200. China, by contrast, languishes at $8,500. This translates to an individual living standard comparable to Bosnia or East Timor. In other words, Japan, despite its perennial hangover from the lost decade and its being on track to become the oldest society the world has ever

EFTA00711993 kilometer-long causeway into oil-rich Al-Qatif, where the bulk of the 2 million Shia i

r, UNPROFOR finally intervened. When Annan became secretary-general, the United Nations tried to bolster its peacekeeping efforts. It did better in East Timor, Kosovo and Libya in putting some teeth in the concept of a "responsibility to protect." But the abiding story has been the United Nations' limitat

of 1994 and over the many years of dithering as lives were lost in the Balkans. But a series of apparently successful interventions - Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone - gradually strengthened the belief that western military power could be used to end conflicts and save civilians. The bitter experienc

r example, that what matters most now is that "we rich people give up some of our luxuries, ceasing to o