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...published in the August 2007 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, looks at data from 46 states and is one of the most comprehensive studies on the impact of drunk-driving laws in the U.S. It finds that suspending a drunk driver's license immediately at the time of arrest reduces alcohol-related fatal crash involvement by 5%, which translates to at least 800 lives being spared in the U.S. per year...
...week after he was arrested for possessing secret documents that reportedly revealed corruption in the Malaysian government, Nathaniel J. Tan ’03-’04 said on his blog Thursday that “absolutely nothing even remotely resembling proof" existed to justify his arrest...
...criticized the police's handling of his arrest on his blog, suggesting that officers violated standards of due process...
Until the court reengages Musharraf on that issue, the President can deal with the other, hotter front in his battle to remain in charge of Pakistan. In the two weeks since Musharraf ordered the army into Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, to arrest Islamic extremists - an order that resulted in the deaths of dozens of militants and ten soldiers - Pakistan's Islamist extremists have retaliated with a series of attacks that have killed more than 180 people, most of them soldiers and police. A U.S. intelligence report this week concluded that Pakistan's policy of non-engagement...
...year-old son. (She is still there.) At this point, says NSM co-founder the Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, several activist Los Angeles clergy wondered, "We can't ignore this. What can we do?" They found their answer in the sanctuary movement of the 1980s, when congregations risking arrest by harboring Central American political refugees helped change public opinion in their favor. Salvatierra, a Lutheran, opened her house as a young seminarian and felt that the movement "awakened the moral imagination of the nation." Now she hopes to achieve the same with the undocumented. "We want to make visible these families...