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...Iranian test has raised alarm bells in the West and renewed interest in the Bush administration’s harebrained scheme for a European missile defense program in Poland and the Czech Republic. But, before we commit to such a program, the Obama administration should remember the most important lesson of the Bush years: the importance of using diplomacy first. Before committing to the expensive and unproven missile shield in Central Europe, the United States should exhaust all of its remaining diplomatic options...
...centuries-old debate over a person's right to die, usually in cases of painful terminal illness, is currently grabbing headlines with the arrest of four members of a group called the Final Exit Network. Authorities say the four helped an Atlanta man commit suicide last June, which, if proven, would be a violation of Georgia state...
...seen by new audiences.”Later that night, the HFA screened Friedkin’s first major film, “The People vs. Paul Crump,” a documentary of a death-row inmate convicted of a murder he likely didn’t commit. The film prompted the governor of Illinois to send Friedkin a thank-you letter, saying the film led him to commute Crump’s sentence to life in prison instead of death by electric chair.“But listen,” Friedkin said, introducing the film with...
...terrorism-related charges. The court ruled that the men had been convicted on the basis of intelligence gathered during interrogations at Gitmo - and that such intelligence failed to meet French standards for permissible evidence. The court said there was no other proof that the men had conspired to commit terrorist acts...
...What does it mean for Sierra Leone? This country suffered enormously during this conflict. Some of the most heinous and brutal acts in the history of human warfare were committed here. Tens of thousands were murdered. Tens to hundreds of thousands of women were raped or turned into bush wives and sex slaves. There was this incredibly bestial practice of cutting off limbs, chopping arms and hands. Children were made to commit acts that adults could not commit. It was a campaign of terror. And this was not a war fought as we think of it, but one exclusively targeted...