Currency crossroads: Will (Free) Tokyo take a plunge into markets?
Currency crossroads: Will Tokyo take a plunge into markets?
Will Japanese government literally plunge into a decision to step into the market, following similar moves from South Korea and Singapore earlier in the week?
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Solar plasma erupts from Sun
An enormous magnetic filament slowly rose off the surface of the sun and arched out in a horseshoe shape eruption on August 25, according to a viewing by NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft. There will be no effects from the blast on Earth.
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Obama says Operation Iraqi Freedom is over
In yet another confirmation that the American soldiers are withdrawing from Iraq, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that “American combat mission in Iraq has ended.”
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US embassy issues security alert ahead of New Delhi Commonwealth Games
The U.S. embassy in India posted the alert on its website on Thursday alerting its citizens traveling to or residing in India during the 2010 Commonwealth Games, as part of its August 12 Worldwide Caution issued by the Department of State over planned terrorist threats throughout the world.
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Blairite Catharsis: Brown effectively tried to “blackmail me”
The attack on Brown was so fierce that political circles were aghast at the power and persuasion of Blair's revelations. BBC's political editor Nick Robinson apologized for his reporting of the Blair-Brown conflict in light of Blair's new revelations, saying : “I now accept that I made mistakes. Things were worse - much worse - than I reflected at the time.”.
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Criminology and Its Discontents
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European unemployment stays high at 10 percent; Spain worst hit
As many as 23 million men and women in the EU were unemployed in July, according to data released by Eurostat on Tuesday. Of these, 15.833 million are from the Eurozone countries
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The Common Thread: Diversion in the Jurisprudence of a Century of Juvenile Justice
A central objective of those who created the juvenile court was to protect young delinquents from the destructive punishments of the criminal justice system. This promotion of juvenile court as a diversion from criminal justice is distinct from more ambitious programs of “child saving” intervention because avoiding harm can be achieved even if no effective crime prevention treatments are available. This essay shows diversion has been an important motive in juvenile justice from the beginning, and the dominant purpose of a separate juvenile court since In Re Gault in 1967. The past thirty years have been the juvenile court’s finest hour as a diversion project; the rate of juvenile incarceration has been stable, while incarceration of young adults has soared.
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