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...given due process and the rights accorded to every other suspect accused of a crime. The pressing need for intelligence in the war on terrorism is valid, but no matter how much valuable intelligence can be obtained by torturing suspects, this need can never be allowed to undercut basic human rights. Anything less is to dangerously neglect our nation’s founding principles...
...Golden Globe Awards. The TV awards for Best Comedy and Best Drama went, respectively, to ABC's suburban mystery Desperate Housewives and FX's plastic-surgery saga Nip/Tuck. The former is the highest-rated new series of the TV season; the latter, one of the highest-rated dramas on basic cable. Both are water-cooler shows about love, sex, fidelity and lies, mainly among heterosexual men and women...
...proportion of our people are poor." Are you trying to redefine India's image? Chidambaram: Yes. A number of people both within India and abroad think India is a poor country. It is not. The bulk of India's people remain poor because we are not able to give basic education to our children, we are not able to impart skills to our young men and women, and we are not able to get productive work out of them. If we can get another 200 million to 300 million people to join the ranks of those engaged in productive activity...
...goes without food; there is always some kind of income. But their poverty stems from the environment in which they live?lack of sanitation, lack of drinking water, medical care. The answer to urban poverty is to get rid of the blight of slums and build proper homes with basic facilities...
...Tung's departure also gives Beijing flexibility over how much electoral reform to allow in Hong Kong. The Basic Law, the territory's constitution, says that the Chief Secretary becomes acting Chief Executive if the top post is vacated in mid-term, and that a new leader has to be chosen by the Election Committee within six months. The question?now hotly discussed by Hong Kong's many lawyers?is whether the new Chief Executive merely serves out the rest of Tung's term to 2007, or whether he gets a new five-year term...