... David Miscavige, who succeeded L. Ron Hubbard as Scientology's leader. The issues included physical abuse of staff, mental abuse and cruelty, high pressure marketing tactics, character assignation, and threats. Miscavige was reported to have taken ruthless control of the organization after Hubbard's death and assumed chairmanship of the Religious Technology Center, the highest governing body is the Church of Scientology. "He is one of the most capable, intelligent individuals I've ever met, but L. Ron Hubbard ... was a better answer than he had, he would lose it" (Sly). FBI agent Tricia...

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... or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect, and exploitation by parents or others in positions of authority. It also compels Canada to supply for programs of support, prevention, and treatment in cases of hostility and child abuse. With regards to school discipline, article 28 calls on Canada to make sure that school discipline is administered in a manner dependable with the child's human distinction. Under article 37, children are not to ... the children. On the other hand, the said guidelines greatly depend in terms of the explicit form of reprimand and the person who applies it. Fu...

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Believing himself to be a victim of a smear campaign, presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National Restaurant Association, Cain battled two sexual harassment claims involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My general counsel said this started out where (an ... told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later by radi...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... attorneys are pressing for a life sentence without parole because of Sowell's mental instability. However, experts believe that it will be difficult for the jury to sympathize with Sowell because of his standoff attitude during the trial. While the jury was plagued with pictures of the dead bodies bruised and battered and then dumped around the house and yard in trash bags. Mary Myers, a psychologist, retired police ... captain, and teacher at the University of Akron, believes that the jurors will not "buy that he ... exactly what he was doing, just like he sat there in that courtroom a...

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... officials abuse their power and their positions being in authority and this complicates a lot of things. Meanwhile, the place where disputes are settled is in courts in the presence of a judge, a prosecutor and a defense attorney. In courts, the judge should be knowledgeable with the laws and he or she functions as the administrator of the proceedings and gives the decision at the end of the case objectively. His decision will be based on the weight of the evidences presented. Moreover, the prosecutor is the ... be turned over to correctional facilities with the corresponding punishment...

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... parent, sources of financial contributions to the children's households, caregiver information for the children and more. This type of data can help in reducing risk of recidivism due to the desire of incarcerated parents to reunite with their children and other information provided in the BJS can point to issues that may further facilitate this possibility or deter it. For example, homelessness, unemployment, mental health issues, and substance abuse can all ... compound reunification and further bring out re-offense. The data suggests that drug offenders and persons committing propert...

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... presidential election was unlike any other, in a number of ways. There was the possibility of a female vice-president pitted against the possibility of an African-American president - both potential history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever ... changed the way Americans experience their political lives. The Internet has infiltrated our everyday lives in countless...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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Following a series of political assassinations of Afghanistan's political leaders, the United States' military officers have seen dramatic improvement in securing the country. Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced the hasty drawdown of the extra "surge" troops he ordered to finish off the al-Qaeda regime. However, there have been several recent acts of violence that have some officials worried. Following the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother, a suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters, killing twelve policemen and a ch...

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... plan, constructed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, is a revised draft of the plan proposed earlier this month, that also resulted in great controversy. Changes to the second draft include higher domestic cuts than the original version, as well as a decrease in the health care savings from overhauling the medical malpractice system. Unlike the original proposal, the revised version does not call for a cap on medical malpractice awards, but instead ... recommends a change in how awards are made (Andrew and Kuhnhenn). The proposals that did not change from the original draft include a g...

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... taken out of the global playing field completely and lack the ability to ever become developed without the needed power and political voice. Individuals run the risk of exploitation in various forms, workers can have little power over wages locally in a global market and many workers are forced out of jobs for lower paid workers and even modern-day slaves. The objectification of individuals for slave labor hints to the extent of the conflict and ... , violence, and drug abuse issues in these marginalized groups enhance an already problematic situation of basic survival in the American ec...

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... next on the government bailout list? Not likely. Despite the woes over the decline in the economy, travel is down only slightly compared to previous years. In fact, according to a study by an independent group representing travel agents, while 68 percent of Americans would describe the economic conditions as "terrible", only 22% of that 68% has actually cancelled a flight, or plans to reschedule at a cheaper time. While even the slightest downturn ... is unexpected, the travel industry has ... ...

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... the thousands. The cause of the conflict goes back to the fall of the former Soviet Union, the division of states, and then the succession of certain states from Georgia, including South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to the Associated Press, NATO came out in support of Georgia after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev refused to comply with a cease-fire order brokered for the two nations by France. The conflict is far from over, as debate over who started it in the ... first place continues. According to Georgian officials, Russia started it by mobilizing tens of thousands of troops nea...

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... and German banks, on their ability to compromise (Rooney) "It must be done in a concerted, collective way," she said. "All the lenders must come to the bedside of Greece and Greece must itself take charge in a responsible manner" (Rooney). She is also a surprising successor because the IMF, which is made up of 187 member countries, traditionally votes for a Western European official. However, many developing nations were very ... South Africa (Rooney). "I will make it my overriding goal that our institution continues to serve its entire membership with the same focus and the same spirit...

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... between his administration and the US Chamber of Commerce, Obama walked the block to the Chamber headquarters. Once there, he joked "I'm in the interest of being more neighborly. Maybe we would have gotten off on a better foot if I had brought over a fruitcake when I first moved in. But I'm going to make up for it." The two groups got off on a bad start after the Chamber spent tens of millions of dollars fighting Obama's health ... -care bills, opposing key elements of the financial regulation law and helping to deliver the House majority to the Republicans last fall. In turn, Obama accu...

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... this." This episode created a division between Olmert, Barak, and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, who was not asked to return for the customary fourth year of service. The bombing of the site in Syria was generally welcomed by Israelis because it has such close ties with Iran. "They were trying the beginnings of a nuclear weapons program, that's pretty clear. Any nuclear facility built by Israel's declared ... Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University (Kalman). This battle of the accusations has also shed light on Israel's censorship laws, which give the military censo...

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... she would never be a "victim". She married a man who was wonderful to her in the beginning, and then slowly, over time, something happened. He seemed to change, show a side of himself she had never seen before, and began to act out physically during arguments instead of talking things out. Ashamed and frightened, she kept her secret private, telling herself that ... that stems from deep insecurity. Batterers, over a lifetime, have developed deep and powerful patterns of denial and rationalization, and helping the batterer to identify and alter this way of thinking is what is at the crux ...

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... , everyone is free to modify it to his own needs and develop it in any fashion he wants. Absolute majority of these programs comes free of charge, but without support from the vendors. The open-source software has recently gained popularity in governmental and commercial sector, especially in some European countries. Apart from the obvious advantage it has over the programs you need to pay for - that it comes free ... of charge, open-source software has other good sides as well. First of all, it is the availability of applications - for ... ...

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... , SayNo2, was managed by Michael Kenny, who admitted that the votes for the ban would end up being very close. Opponents of the ban also were supported greatly by accepting individual donations from the wealthy, and support from the Human Rights Campaign, a powerful gay-rights organization involved heavily in legal affairs. Amendment 2 was advertised greatly and fought hard over the television and airwaves, with both groups spending more than ... 5 million dollars in advertising costs. Although same-sex marriage has been illegal in the state of Florida since the year 1997, those who supp...

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... issue that social conservatives and evangelical voters closely consider when choosing a candidate to vote for, but this time he claimed that he opposes abortion in all instances, including rape, incest, or when the birth jeopardizes the life of the mother (McCaffrey). In 1998, during an interview with Nation's Restaurant News, Cain described himself as "pro-life with exceptions, and people want you to be all or ... abortion was legal, founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 - the predecessor to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. During her lifetime, Sanger did write...

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... Mulcaire's list, the private investigator hired by The News of the World. The list contained about 4,000 people rumored to be targets of the tabloid's phone scandal (Somaiya). "The last edition of The News of the World made great play of the paper's relationship with the Payne family," said Tom Watson, a parliament member who investigated the phone scandal. "I have nothing but contempt for the people that did this" (Somaiya). Brooks testified that The News of the World did, in fact, give ... Payne a cell phone "for the last ... ...

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... the United Nations. Almost five months ago, protestors took to the streets, inspired by the recent government overthrows in Tunisia and Egypt. With barely any progress for either the protestors or the government, demonstrators vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Syrian government quickly took advantage of the demonstrators' silence by ordering a military assault on the city of Hama, killing almost 100 Syrians over the span of a weekend. In light of the ... unprovoked violence, the United Nations Security Council ... ...

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... the United Nations. Almost five months ago, protestors took to the streets, inspired by the recent government overthrows in Tunisia and Egypt. With barely any progress for either the protestors or the government, demonstrators vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Syrian government quickly took advantage of the demonstrators' silence by ordering a military assault on the city of Hama, killing almost 100 Syrians over the span of a weekend. In light of the ... unprovoked violence, the United Nations Security Council ... ...

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... nothing humanitarian or anything that has to do with Palestinian welfare in the organizing of this flotilla," said Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor. He added that the flotilla participants are "extremists" (Chick). The U.S. Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland agreed that the participants are taking "irresponsible and provocative" actions and urged them ... of the press" (Weiss). The flotilla participants are largely unaffected by the warning, however. In fact, instead of backing down, many are simulating encounters with the Israeli Navy instead (Chick). On...

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