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...Shadowy Cells Your notebook item "Outing Secret Jails" [Nov. 14] said the Washington Post reported that the CIA has held captured al-Qaeda members in covert detention centers in several East European countries as well as in Thailand, Afghanistan and Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. Holding prisoners in secret and denying them recourse to judicial hearings in a timely fashion are more than appalling. The Bush Administration seems not to understand that if you want to "export" democracy, you need to act like a democracy, not a totalitarian state. Say all you want about the ends justifying the means, the reality...
With so many to choose from, picking an SRI that's in line with your values can be tricky. "There is no universal standard for what socially responsible really means," says Russel Kinnel, Morningstar's director of fund research. The Natural Capital Institute, a Bay Area research group, reported last year that some SRI funds invested in weaponmakers like Raytheon and in tobacco businesses like Altria (formerly Philip Morris). Says Kinnel: "Read your prospectus' fine print." It's also a good idea to think of SRIs as long-term investments. Why? Since they're typically underrepresented in oil and other...
...These are the basic facts: foreigners are being held indefinitely at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, under orders from President Bush. The legal status of these detainees is in flux as the administration argues before the judiciary that American laws do not apply to overseas military installations. Appeals have worked their way up to the Supreme Court, which has sided with the administration...
...Court” is immersed in law, focusing on the protracted legal battles that now-Yale Law Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 and a shifting band of students fought against the elder Bush and Clinton administrations on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo Bay. The book began as a tale about America’s occasional betrayal of its age-old reputation as a haven for refugees. “After 9/11, it is also a cautionary tale about how we use our naval base at Guantanamo as an extralegal camp without accountability...
...cars. While lite runners vie for big money ($50,000 for the winner and $1.25 million to anyone who breaks the world record), newlyweds and vow renewers like Thomas and Bellinda Erikson, of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., will be racing for a night in the Mandalay Bay honeymoon suite. The Eriksons, who met in a relay race and have run 30 marathons between them, hope to win, but finishing together might prove more important. "She beat me in the last marathon," says Thomas, "and I haven't heard...