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...three Republican senators who opposed a White House version of the bill - Senators John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Warner of Virginia - said the just-announced compromise with the White House met their fundamental requirements by first leaving the provisions of the Geneva Conventions untouched and second, by guaranteeing prisoners facing military tribunals basic rights and fairness. The Bush Administration had favored a watering down of some of those rights...
...missing something,” he said, adding that these findings are “sending theoretical astrophysicists back to the drawing board.” Via a remote link, the team is continuing to observe the star’s wobble using the Center for Astronomy observatory in Arizona to understand HAT-P-1’s orbit better. “The orbit may be slightly elliptical...that’s important,” Noyes said. “If it’s elliptical, then you can get tides on the planet induced by its star?...
JOHN MCCAIN'S BILL would protect interrogators from civil suits, would punish them only for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and would increase rights of appeal to the U.S. courts. It would preserve references to the Geneva Conventions in the War Crimes Act. The Arizona Senator and his co-sponsors, John Warner and Lindsey Graham, argue that if the U.S. interprets Geneva to its liking, other countries will too, endangering American troops if they are captured...
...middle of the election-crazed capital in a crazy election season, one contest close to home passed relatively quietly in official Washington this week while political junkies focused on key races in Rhode Island, Maryland and Arizona...
...rest of the Jerusalem belt must be taken into account. While Palestinians need land, Israelis cannot be expected to just leave and abandon the benefits of their hard labor over the last two generations. Just as it is unthinkable here that the United States should give back Texas or Arizona to Mexico, it is nearly unthinkable that Israel should give areas like Gilo, which were nothing but desert under Jordanian control, over to a Palestinian state...