Results for “United Nations Special Committee on Palestine”

…olations.°’ Nothing came of either complaint, but when President Obama was considering appointing Shorstein to become a United States Attorney in Florida, we notified the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee of Shorstein’s ethical lapses and he was passed over for the j...

…unit for 90 days in an effort to make improvements in that unit, officials said. Luis.is working with a hospital in the United States to come to an agreement to temporarily trans- fer its patients there, officials said. The plan to temporarily close the unit prompted considerabl...

…ictim's right constitutes "clear error" subject to correction presumably will need to be resolved in future cases. Cf. United States v. Bedonie, 413 F.3d 1126 (10th Cir. 2005) (remedying error in restitution award not permitted after imposition of sentence). 301-18 U.S.C.A. 377...

…who is Ed Mezvinsky? Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977. He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon. He was...

…dancing on the grave of copyright in the mid-1990s -- and immerse in some of the law and policy changes effected in the United States to deal with the problem without running up against the equities of rapidly-growing intermediaries of online and Internet service providers (turns...

…el as we know and love it,” its statement said. Mr. Obama’s proposal, the group said, is supported by many Jews in the United States and Israel. It is “the path that most of Israel’s recent prime ministers have attempted to blaze, from Rabin to Barak to Olmert.” Republicans, ho...

…uch about Chi- na’s rich civilization, political theo- ries and the whole development,” he said. Kuhn, who is from the United States, learns as an outsider but communicates as an insider. In his talk show Closer to China with R.L. Kuhn on the China Global Televi- sion Network, h...

…ennedy Center Honoree. He was the recipient of the 2012 Polar Music Prize. Appointed a CultureConnect Ambassador by the United States Department of State in 2002, Mr. Ma has met with, trained and mentored thousands of students worldwide in countries including Lithuania, Korea, Le...

…e Confucius Institutes (CI), of which there are now 110 (plus 501 Confucius Classrooms in secondary schools) across the United States.* For secondary schools and colleges that have no or little other coverage of China on campus, CIs are an important resource. Sponsored by the Han...

…nuous argument; in the 1980’s, the debt ceiling being debated was 50% of GDP, and had no bearing on the solvency of the United States. Today, the proposed increase raises the debt limit twice as high, measured relative to GDP or government revenues. While a default is a very ba...

…g the types of assistance that are described in the section. Furthermore, the new subsection (a)()(3) would require the United States Government to provide “technical assistance to provide legal frameworks and other programs to foreign governments and nongovernmental organization...

… the steady erosion of global free- dom and the rise of authoritarian powers. The recent developments in Europe and the United States will hopefully shake their complacency. There is a strong need for analysis, support for individual dissidents, and aid for societies under author...

…n that was labeled civil society consisted of organizations that were often committed to a single cause or a few causes united by a particular theme. Most activists were young, with little prior involvement in politics, and many regarded themselves as part of a global effort to...

…minal justice process. However, you should know that | work as part of a team with the FBI Agent and personnel from the United States Attorney's Office. Discussions that you have with me may not be considered completely confidential. As part of the team, there are times when | ma...

…ok about him, and the world was ready to congratulate him for revealing the NSA's illegal collection of data inside the United States. But in fact, he stole a great deal more than documents relating to domestic surveillance. He had also stolen secret documents from the NSA reveal...