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...Chei Mi Lane, reveals some of the mischief done to Wong characters: she was buried alive in The Devil Dancer, fatally impaled on knives in Song, shot dead in Piccadilly, Daughter of the Dragon and Lady from Chungking. She committed suicide in Shame and Drifting, Hai-Tang, Tiger Bay and Java Head (poison) and Limehouse Blues and Dangerous to Know (dagger...
...unlawful). Although the U.K. “opted out” of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (which enshrines the right to liberty) in passing the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act, the U.S. has denied terror detainees, most notably at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, both rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the protections of International Humanitarian Law guaranteed by the Geneva Conventions. The difference between these countries’ provisions is, at once, simple and frightening: while the British made an exception that allowed them to hold prisoners indefinitely...
Harvard’s inside game, usually a strength on the offensive end, was held at bay by an aggressive Lions defense...
...that, I'm not prepared to ... allow these people to succeed." The human-rights community is up in arms. "House arrest seems to be something that happens in places like Burma," said lawyer Louise Christian, who represents two of the four British detainees who returned from Guantánamo Bay last week. A major concern is that the Home Secretary, not a court, would impose a control order, and also that "people may not be allowed to know the evidence held against them," says Doug Jewell of the human-rights organization Liberty. But the British government appears undaunted. Balancing...
...snow and ice-covered roads along with Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority services delays and cancellations made it difficult for many dining hall workers to get to work yesterday morning, resulting in closures in some houses...