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According to Amnesty International’s 2005 report on Zimbabwe, the country’s police and intelligence forces "were implicated in numerous cases of torture, assault, and ill-treatment." The report said that "victims were primarily members of the political opposition and those perceived as critical of the government...
...Fried is likely to draw attention to a recommendation against “a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade” in Alito’s memo...
What would the winter Olympics be without skating, sledding?and soap operas? The 2006 Games in Torino, Italy, are a month away, but the controversies are already flying like a Finnish ski jumper. Canada angered many fans last month by naming hockey pariah Todd Bertuzzi?who pleaded guilty to assault for a vicious on-ice attack on Colorado Avalanche player Steve Moore in March 2004?to its Olympic squad, snubbing the sport's golden boy, Siddney Crosby, 18. And injured figure-skating star Michelle Kwan, 25, last week said she would skip the U.S. championships, which double as the sport...
...came to shove in November, when Martin's 17-month-old government was shattered by a no-confidence vote. At the outset, most of Canada's chattering classes shared their PM's view that a grueling 56-day election spanning the holiday period was unnecessary, not to mention an assault on Christmas. "Ambition has overwhelmed common sense," said Martin, who had already announced he would schedule an election during the February doldrums. But the opposition parties, who held 173 seats of 308 in the House of Commons, decided they would never have a better opportunity to strike. For Harper...
...Overuse of antibiotics helped breed the new bug in two ways. First, the simple rules of natural selection dictate that when a drug kills most of the members of any species of pathogen, those individuals that do withstand the assault did so because they had a natural resistance to the chemical. It's the same phenomenon that breeds pesticide-resistant insects on farms. What's more, since many antibiotics wipe out numerous species of bacteria at once, the drugs inadvertently create a nice, clear field in which those that do survive can thrive...