The competition authorities are taking a hard look at Vivendi's new tax treatment to determine whether it is a hidden form of illegal state aid.

ECONOMIST: French business

It was also recognized for decades in the United States as an illegal form of torture.

NEWYORKER: The Black Sites

Among the items voted on: The DREAM act, a form of amnesty for illegal aliens who entered the country as young children and attended college or served two years in the military.

CNN: What's the value of immigration?

Could we form a stronger partnership with Mexico that would result in less illegal immigration and lowered expense of Border Patrol?

WHITEHOUSE: Open for Questions with President Obama

President Bush has always actually been closer to Democrats than Republicans on this issue, favoring a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that congressional conservatives object to as a form of amnesty.

FORBES: Labor Won't Embrace Immigrants

The main overhaul plan under consideration in Congress would grant legal status and citizenship to illegal immigrants, which many in the GOP see as a form of amnesty for people who broke U.S. law.

WSJ: RNC Issues Scathing Analysis of GOP

But Byron Brauchli has turned the idea of elegance on its head, and used this fine form (albeit with palladium, a close platinum substitute) to depict illegal logging in Mexico in 1993, with billowing smoke and trees shown in sharp relief.

ECONOMIST: The daguerreotype is back

Underwriters also form syndicates to share the risk of bringing a new company to market--evidence of illegal collusion under antitrust laws?

FORBES: Wall Street Worries

Nowadays, Indonesians form the bulk of both the 800, 000 legal foreign workers, and the million-odd illegal ones.

ECONOMIST: Immigration and its problems

But, experts say, it also allows Indians to launder vast amounts of untaxed wealth by sending their illegal cash to Mauritius, then "round-tripping" it back to India in the form of legal investments.

NPR: In India, Dodging Taxes Is Part Of The Game