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...alleged murders in the military demonstrate. For Blackwater, legal repercussions have been essentially nonexistent since 2004, when L. Paul Bremer, then the head administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, granted private contractors a complicated immunity scheme. While the order was supposedly not intended to give contractors “blanket immunity,” no contractors have been prosecuted in three years, even the drunk Blackwater guard who allegedly killed an Iraqi security official on Christmas Eve last year. And just yesterday the Associated Press reported that the State Department has given Blackwater personnel involved in the Sept. 16 incident...
...word evacuation doesn't do justice to the poignancy of the act. An evacuation is--potentially--the willful and reasonable abandonment of a life. Not just the photographs but also your grandfather's ashes and your baby's receiving blanket from the hospital. Until they're gone, it's easy to tell yourself those things don't matter. Then material things become a proxy for all the nonmaterial things you lost too. Peace of mind, say, or a sense of where you came from. Or an identity as someone who gives handouts and doesn't take them...
...first time I watched “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” I hid under the couch and then locked the video in the closet. I also slept with a baby blanket until middle school. But in my later and wiser years, I realized there’s a lot more to his film than the average seven-year old can appreciate. Tim Burton brings to the otherwise staid genre of holiday films a freshly twisted execution, even though Santa saves Christmas in the end. That’s not to say that I don?...
...Normally conservative Chinese officials are even indulging in a little spin control. On top of the usual, scarily uniform blanket coverage in the Chinese media, the Congress now has its own website and a large team of media handlers for the foreign press. There is also a spanking new, two-story media center equipped with banks of computers, phone charging outlets and - this being China - plenty of thermoses of hot water. The media office also organized several of the sessions at which delegates discussed the Party's future plans. Two next-generation leaders who are widely touted to be elevated...
...require getting a warrant to listen to calls of suspected terrorists in the U.S. But the act would authorize most other warrantless intercepts of calls between targets or suspects overseas and phones in the U.S. The measure requires that intelligence officials submit procedures to a court before starting such blanket snooping. Officials must also prove that the law isn't being used to launch fishing expeditions that needlessly infringe on the privacy of innocent Americans. To check up on this, the legislation would make a secret court audit the surveillance program periodically and require Congress to reauthorize...