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...miss Clinton's intelligent,thoughtful and truly compassionate leadership. He has the kind of genuine concern that pays more than lip service to the needs of the common citizen. I was struck by the fluidity of his responses and his understanding of complex geopolitical issues he faced as President. I am so used to the current Administration's terse, repetitive and convoluted statements-which don't respond to anything-that I had forgotten what real leadership sounds like. Lynn Capehart San Diego...
...Given Jiang's international stature following SARS, Beijing risks drawing unwanted attention to its human-rights record at a time when the country is trying to present itself as a model global citizen and trade partner. During a visit to Beijing last week, U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice complained to China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing about Jiang's detention, according to the Wall Street Journal. The only public explanation the government has so far offered was a statement to the Washington Post that Jiang "recently violated the relevant discipline of the military" and that "the military has been...
Those are just some of the questions raised by the Guantanamo ruling, and by another one concerning Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen imprisoned since his capture in Afghanistan in 2001. In that case, the court decided that while the President can deem American citizens "enemy combatants," he cannot deny them access to a lawyer and a chance to answer the charges before a "neutral decision maker." The Supreme Court left it to the Bush Administration and lower courts to devise a way for Hamdi to challenge his detention...
...CITIZEN SLEUTHS: Truckers and bus drivers join the war on terror...
...notion of Big Pharma cowering before the feds is a bit of a stretch, considering its army of lobbyists encamped in Washington--a total of 526, about one for every member of Congress, according to a report issued last week by the watchdog group Public Citizen. Despite the siege mentality at the conference--and fears of a shortage of blockbusters in the pipeline just as several billion-dollar drugs get ready to come off patent--the industry remains one of America's healthiest. U.S. prescription-drug sales grew 11.5% last year, to $216 billion; the top 10 pharmaceutical firms netted...