Fraudsters face jail, and their assets are frozen and divided up among their victims.
Writer Harry Reid said the incident left the university campus "a very bitter and divided place".
But should the electricity sales now be reversed, his government will look weak and divided.
The quarrel has crystallised differences between South Korea's conservatives and liberals and divided the country.
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For now, the Pinochet affair has united Chile's right-wing parties and divided the centre-left.
Margaret Thatcher's government rode out its hard early years largely because the opposition was weak and divided.
Seoul is a bustling, sprawling city of 10 million, ringed by mountains and divided by the Han River.
Still floundering and divided after their electoral debacle in 1997, the Gaullists will certainly not perk up easily.
Khan was born in Pakistan and divided his grammar and high school years among Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Florida.
Many African borders encompassed lots of ethnic groups and divided some of them.
Serbia was trying to help the peace process to stop the fratricidal war, the war between brethren, honestly crazy and divided.
Much of the work is routine, repetitive, and divided into small tasks that limit the ability to see the bigger picture.
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Let us hope that today's overseas service men and women can have a similar impact on a troubled and divided world.
To this day, and despite the scores of books on the subject, the affair that rocked and divided France fascinates historians.
Yemen, population a quarter, tribal and divided, will be a different story.
This week Jordan's King Abdullah got embroiled in rows among fellow Arabs after accusing the Palestinians' leadership of being weak and divided.
In Bolivia, long seen as a success story for democratic reform, a weak and divided coalition government was shaken by rioting in February.
At the helm is President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, whose task of uniting a once-fractured and divided society is too enormous to be judged prematurely.
Yet in recent years, for many reasons, American politics has become more strident and divided, and often along personal rather than ideological lines.
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In 1807, the first of the Treaties of Tilsit was signed, under which France and Russia became allies and divided Europe between them.
Committee deputy chairperson Declan O'Loan said Northern Ireland's first museum policy needed to be more open about "living in a complex and divided society".
Americans hold their military in very high regard, even as they are much more doubtful and divided about the 10 years of foreign wars.
This week Jordan's King Abdullah got embroiled in rows among fellow Arabs after accusing the Palestinians' leadership of being weak and divided (see article).
But the administration has dragged its feet, arguing that the opposition is weak and divided, and none of Iraq's neighbours is willing to support it.
So Grotzinger cropped out a hundred and fifty square miles around the landing area and divided it into quadrangles of about a mile on a side.
But shadow foreign secretary William Hague told the BBC it appeared the reshuffle had left the cabinet "even more dysfunctional and divided than it was before".
His speech was less a policy statement than the opening move in a campaign to reshape a debate where public opinion is both sceptical and divided.
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The map "took the 3 billion DNA letters and divided them into 300, 000 ZIP codes so you could locate things, " says cardiologist Eric Topol of Scripps Health.
Mr Bush's speech was less a policy statement than the opening move in a campaign to reshape a debate where public opinion is both sceptical and divided.
Be in no doubt Mr Obama has won a victory and the Republicans in the House have been forced to back down, and are left fuming and divided.
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