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...news keeps coming. Several class actions are in the works, and a recent Air Force study suggests that Tasers may not be 100% safe. Chicago, which already has 200 of them deployed, delayed plans to distribute 100 more in February after a 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest and a 54-year-old man died after being stunned. Both were unarmed. "This is a classic case of giving someone a technology, then seeing them use it inappropriately and excessively," says Benjamin Wolf, associate legal director of the Illinois branch of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...narrative and a backdrop of political tension, Kaabour’s film could be seen as a public service announcement against intolerance as well as a slice of life cinematographic exploration of character. While Osama El-Demerdash, eager and willing to leave Canada, visibly shakes with frustration at pending arrest charges for a political demonstration, fellow Egyptian Osama El-Naggar plays poker with friends in a local hookah bar and thinks of French as his first language...
...Peddling Nuclear Secrets I was disappointed by your doomsday-style investigative reporting on nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, who is under house arrest for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets [Feb. 14]. Why not give your readers an alternative picture? Please try to understand: Pakistan is a country surrounded by problematic neighbors. We need our nukes to keep India quiet. We need to build economic ties with Iran for our mutual benefit. We need market access, scholarships, easy visas to other countries and technical know-how. Pakistanis have paid dearly for assisting the U.S. and the world community, first during the Afghan...
responding officers checked the person for outstanding wants or warrants—a search that proved successful. State Police was then notified and placed the person under arrest...
...Storm Over Sunset BRITAIN Home Secretary Charles Clarke imposed strict controls on 10 released terror suspects under a new antiterror bill approved after a marathon all-night session of Parliament. The House of Lords, Parliament's unelected upper chamber, finally endorsed the measure, which permits restrictions such as house arrest, after Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed to give Parliament the right to review it within a year. The 10 suspects were released from three years' detention shortly before the bill's adoption. Selective Strike FRANCE Some 150,000 demonstrators protesting economic reforms, including the overhaul of the 35-hour week...