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Despite undeniable first-hand accounts and evidence from former government officials, the Bush administration still refuses to confirm that the rendition program exists; whenever the subject is brought up, they repeat something to the effect that it is not the policy of the United States to hand over people to face torture or to countries where torture is likely to take place. Defending the rendition program without explicitly naming it, Alberto Gonzales, then the White House counsel, wrote in Congressional testimony last January that he “was not aware of anyone in the executive branch authorizing any transfer...
...more exultant when they announced on Feb. 26 that "BTK is arrested." But Harrell says the declaration was part of "such an orgy of self-congratulation and excessive publicity that I wonder if Rader can get a fair trial in this county." Rader's lawyers, who will not confirm reports that their client has confessed to all 10 killings, wonder the same thing. A change of venue "is one of the things we'll be looking at," says counsel Steve Osburn...
...summer of 1995, with the Mexican economy showing signs of recovery, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm Summers as deputy secretary of the Treasury, the department’s number two post...
...front page profile story published in the Times last week seems to confirm that Summers plans to once again reevaluate his habits and the way he conducts himself in public. Patrick Healy, who previously wrote about Summers for the Globe in the late 1990s, and Sara Rimer, an education reporter who has been covering the current saga for the Times, were given an interview with the University President in his office on Feb. 18th, where he discussed what it was like to hold his job over the course of the previous month...
...treated—not to mention his prolificacy, as he nears his hundredth film—are simply extraordinary. The first American scholarly work on Korean film proposed as its title a simple apposition: Im Kwon Taek: the Making of a Korean National Cinema. Domestic ticket sales confirm what Kyung Hyun Kim, the UCLA professor who wrote the book in question, suggests: that the significance of Im’s work in South Korea is not to be underestimated...