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REINSTATED. The right of the U.S. government to seek the death penalty against ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, a French citizen charged with participating in a terrorism conspiracy to attack the U.S. along with the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers; by an appeals court in Richmond, Va. The appeals panel, overturning a lower-court ruling, also said Moussaoui could have access to information from three al-Qaeda prisoners who may be able to provide evidence in his defense. Moussaoui has denied that he was part of the Sept. 11 plot...
...tracking global content filtering, a lot of which is undertaken in secret, and a lot of which is clandestine,” said Ronald J. Deibert, an associate professor with The Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. “We are trying to get a sense of what kind of checks are being put on content by governments around the world...
...April, Murdoch announced that he was moving News Corp.'s official base of operations from Australia to New York City--thus completing his Americanization, which began 19 years ago when he became a U.S. citizen. With Murdoch now 73, his reign might be seen to be nearing its end; his two sons Lachlan and James stand poised to take his place at the company's helm. But the old man still seems frisky and in no hurry to step aside. And until he does, he'll continue to play the role he clearly relishes: powerful, vilified and, most...
...about a local ice rescue, and this July I'm going to cover the Democratic Convention," says Garfield, who posts one or two new clips every month. "With cheaper digital cameras and cell phones that can also shoot video, more and more regular people like me will start becoming citizen-journalists...
...once in my life, I felt an enormous solidarity with Spain. We Portuguese have nurtured antagonism toward our neighbor for several centuries. But on March 11, I suffered along with the people of Madrid, feeling like a citizen of the Iberian Peninsula rather than of a country that split from Spain in 1143. Still, I cannot understand how the Spanish people could allow their election to be manipulated by terrorists. The Spaniards have taught us some brave lessons about dealing with ETA terrorists. Though the probability of being killed on the roads of Portugal is thousands of times greater than...