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...Nuon Chea is the second Khmer Rouge leader slated to be brought before the tribunal, a special chamber in the Cambodian courts. Authorities in July charged Kaing Guek Eav - known as Duch - with crimes against humanity for his role as commander of a Khmer Rouge prison where an estimated 14,000 people were sent to be tortured and executed. In custody since 1999, Duch said in an interview eight years ago that he was "like a water boy" for Nuon Chea...
...exchange came during the general's second hearing Tuesday - the first had been before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - and the third of the week for both Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Baghdad. The Senate is the preeminent chamber on foreign affairs and national security (remember, its members have to ratify international treaties and confirm secretaries of state and defense), and so, in contrast to the House a day earlier, much of the nearly 10 hours of Senators' questioning was tough and to the point: What is the mission of the U.S. military in Iraq, the Senators wanted...
...ears of the other 77, Byrd's call back then must ring in their ears like the angry voice of a conscience ignored. "Wait!" he shouted in the echoing chamber. "Slow down! Don't rush this through...
...sexy moment with a prostitute is a good example, as is a curiously menacing encounter with railroaders blasting their way through a mountainside. With his screenwriters (Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, updating Halstad Welles's original) he has managed the task of expanding what amounted to a kind of chamber piece without improbably inflating it. He never loses his crispness or his narrative efficiency...
...recent news has been dominated by President Hugo Chavez's proposal for constitutional reform, outlined in a booming speech at the National Assembly that lasted so late into the night that lawmakers couldn't help but tuck into a bunch of empanadas in the legislative chamber. In the speech, whose transcript runs to 61 pages, Chavez ventured into the peculiar with a proposal to build artificial islands in order to consolidate Venezuela's presence in the Caribbean. And then, of course, there was his proposal to remove presidential term limits as well as to increase the term of office from...