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...zone of combat” argument? Well, when facing an enemy whose tactics are directed chiefly at civilians far removed from the conventional battlefield, we might say that the entire American homeland is potentially a “zone of combat.” Moreover, the Quirin Court made short work of this argument in 1942. It said that American citizens who enter U.S. territory during wartime “in civilian dress and with hostile purpose” are “enemy belligerents,” plain and simple. Whether they are physically captured...
Rumsfeld v. Padilla is closely related to another case currently before the Court: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, which concerns a U.S. citizen, Yaser Hamdi, captured in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban. The issue at stake is whether the president can hold him indefinitely as a battlefield detainee. Richmond’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed this right as a constitutional war power...
...buzzing about Donald Rumsfeld’s fate. Whatever it is, it will be better than Wilfred Owen’s. An English officer, he wrote those lines while recovering from wounds in 1917. Once healed, he returned to the front, 25 years old, to be killed on the battlefield one week before Armistice...
...Barker creates his own "theatre of catastrophe" by taking aim at history, whether the 1683 Siege of Vienna in The Europeans or the 1571 Battle of Lepanto in Scenes From an Execution. With Victory, for which Davis auditioned when it premiered at London's Royal Court in 1984, the battlefield is the post?Civil War reign of Charles...
...more money than movies. An electrical engineer by training, he joined Sony in 1975, but his gut-check moment didn't arrive until 1990, when Nintendo backed out of a partnership with Sony to build a new video-game machine. Most in the company wanted to cede the battlefield, but Kutaragi believed Sony could go it alone; he led an in-house splinter cell that developed a new game console from scratch. The PlayStation debuted in 1994. By the end of the decade it was generating 40% of Sony's operating profit...