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A test on civic knowledge given to elected officials proved that they are slightly less knowledgeable than the uninformed people who voted them into office. Elected officials scored a 44 percent while ordinary citizens managed an amazing 49 percent on the 33 questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. "It is disturbing enough that the general public failed ISI's civic literacy test, but when you consider the even more dismal scores of elected officials, you have to be concerned," said Josiah Bunting, chairman of the National Civic Literacy Board at ISI. The three branches of government aren't the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
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via Slashdot @ 0:02 22nd Nov
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NEW DELHI -- Senior Indian cricket officials, including former chief Sharad Pawar, were consulting lawyers Thursday after a court ordered criminal proceedings against them on perjury charges. The Calcutta High Court ruled that six officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should face charges linked to a case against ex-president Jagmohan Dalmiya. Besides Pawar, who is due to take over as ICC president in 2010, the other accused men are BCCI chief Shashank Manohar, former and present secretaries Niranjan Shah and N. Srinivasan, vice-president Chirayu Amin and BCCI’s chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty.
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via China Post @ 2:41 14th Nov
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PESHAWAR: The Interior Ministry has asked high-ranking police and security officials in all the four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the Northern Areas (NAs) and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) to switch to electronic communication to save time and keep abreast of key developments, Daily Times learnt on Saturday. A letter from the Interior Ministry’s National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC), seen by Daily Times, has asked police chiefs, home secretaries, the Frontier Corps inspector general (IG), director generals of Punjab and Sindh Rangers, chief commissioner and IGs of ICT, the NAs and AJK to switch to electronic communication to receive alerts concerning any law and order situation. The letter asked the officials to submit their BlackBerry/cellphone numbers to the ministry.
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via Daily Times @ 21:56 22nd Nov
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ECB officials Giles Clarke and David Collier will meet with IPL commissioner Lalit Modi on Saturday to try and resolve a fixture clash that is hindering the participation of England players in the league's next season in 2009.
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via CricInfo @ 4:27 15th Nov
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Cricket officials in Dunedin have apologised for using the slogan "It's all white here" to promote a Test match between New Zealand and the visiting West Indies side in the city next month, a newspaper reported Friday.
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via Yahoo! News Australia @ 20:42 20th Nov
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Cricket officials in Dunedin have apologised for using the slogan "It's all white here" to promote a Test match between New Zealand and the visiting West Indies side in the city next month, a newspaper reported Friday.
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via The Age @ 20:44 20th Nov
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Cricket officials in Dunedin have apologised for using the slogan "It's all white here" to promote a Test match between New Zealand and the visiting West Indies side in the city next month.
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via Webindia123 @ 4:17 22nd Nov
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 18:29 20th Nov
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Top ICC officials and senior representatives from the host nations of the 2011 World Cup will meet in Mumbai on Tuesday to discuss preparations for the tournament, to be co-hosted by India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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via CricInfo @ 14:30 3rd Nov
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German officials say financial compensation claims were closed under a 1961 treaty between Germany and Italy.
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via Expatica Germany @ 23:11 24th Oct
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AUSTIN — Texas prison officials, worried about smuggled cell phones inside their correctional units, plan to demonstrate cell-phone jamming technology next month even though current federal law forbids states from using such methods.
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via Houston Chronicle @ 21:14 26th Nov
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Senior Indian cricket officials, including former chief Sharad Pawar, were consulting lawyers on Thursday after a court ordered criminal proceedings against them on perjury charges.
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via United Cricket Board of South Africa @ 13:24 13th Nov
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government officials said the driving reason behind the decision to rescue Citigroup Inc was to try to restore confidence in the financial system and in big U.S. financial institutions.
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via Yahoo! India @ 7:49 24th Nov
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Wellington, Nov 21 : Cricket officials in Dunedin have apologised for using the slogan 'It's all white here' to promote a Test match between New Zealand and the visiting West Indies side in the city next month.
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via NewKerala.com @ 12:07 21st Nov
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United Nations refugee officials are still unable to get shekel notes into banks in Gaza, where Israel has imposed closures or restrictions on crossing points, leaving 94,000 of the poorest people without their regular cash assistance.
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via United Nations @ 22:47 1st Dec
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Not that we need it, but here's yet another reason to worry about havoc in financial markets: U.S. intelligence officials increasingly fear that computer hackers could wreck banks and large financial institutions, or send stock markets into one more panicked frenzy, by covertly manipulating data and spreading false information.
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via National Journal @ 3:02 24th Oct
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An Italian prosecutor has ordered four former and current Google officials to stand trial on charges related to a video of a taunted youth with Down syndrome posted on its Italian website, court sources said. The prosecutor, Francesco Cajani, ordered the defendants to appear in a Milan court on February 3 to face charges of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data, the sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
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via GigaLaw.com @ 22:13 8th Nov
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Italian prosecutors reportedly filed defamation and breach of privacy charges against four former and current Google officials and set a February 3 hearing date, according to a Reuters report.
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via ZDNet Asia @ 12:25 10th Nov
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JAKARTA -- An Indonesian court sentenced two former senior central bank officials to four years in jail Wednesday in a corruption case linked to a relative of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Indonesia’s feared anti-corruption court found Oey Hoey Tiong and Rusli Simanjuntak guilty by of embezzling 100 billion rupiah (US$9.3 million) from the central bank.
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via China Post @ 0:12 13th Nov
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Jakarta, 12 Nov. (AKI/Jakarta Post) - Indonesia's Corruption Court sentenced top central bank officials Oey Hoey Tiong and Rusli Simanjutak on Wednesday to serve four years in jail for misappropriating funds and pay a 200 million rupiah (18,000 dollars) fine each.
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via ADN Kronos International @ 21:08 12th Nov
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Italian prosecutors reportedly filed defamation and breach of privacy charges against four former and current Google officials and set a February 3 hearing date, according to a Reuters report.
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via CNET News.com @ 21:56 7th Nov
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EVANSVILLE, Ind./TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan officials said they were on alert for signs of deflation and grappling with how the central banks would keep it at bay as interest rates approach zero.
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via Conde Nast Portfolio @ 9:44 22nd Nov
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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday suspended the termination orders of three officials of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and provisionally reinstated them till the final decision of their petitions. Javed Arshad Munj, PCB general manager administration, Muhammad Pervez, PCB general manager cricket special projects and Ahmad Anwar, personal staff officer of PCB chairman, had filed petitions in the LHC challenging the notifications of their dismissal from service by the PCB. They said the PCB terminated them without serving any show-cause and no allegations were raised against them in the termination letters. The counsel for the PCB submitted that the petitioners were dismissed from services on the recommendations of a well-reputed chartered accountant firm ‘Ferguson Associates’.
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via Daily Times @ 2:24 25th Nov
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Italian prosecutors reportedly filed defamation and breach of privacy charges against four former and current Google officials and set a February 3 hearing date, according to a Reuters report.
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via CNET News.com @ 21:56 7th Nov
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Urgent testing and regulation are needed to control the rapidly developing field of nanomaterials, according to British officials.
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via FDA News @ 18:29 17th Nov
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