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If you are a government hungry for clues about the enemies' plans, one problem with the Geneva Convention governing treatment of traditional prisoners of war is that it includes strict rules limiting interrogation. So these detainees are called "enemy combatants," and there is no field manual outlining the rules for...
As Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Daniel R. Glickman noted, “It can change people’s lives to be able to see the interface between people and politics...Politics doesn’t happen exclusively in Cambridge, Mass.” But the interface between people...
If the trick for some Democrats is to be pro gay while shunning gay marriage, the goal of Republicans will be to support a marriage ban without heading down the cultural warpath the way Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson did at the 1992 G.O.P. Convention--a tactic that helped lose...
Feel like watching TV on the patio? What's that, the cords won't reach? Fear not. At last week's Comdex convention in Las Vegas, Shanghai Visart Technologies, a Chinese firm, unveiled a 17-in. LCD monitor ($900) that doesn't need any wires. The screen can be carried...
For a solid year or more, France and Germany have taken great delight in denouncing the selfish "unilateralism" of the United States - "Dirty Harry" and "Globocop" rolled into one. But who is a unilateralist now? Last week the Continent's two biggest fish demonstrated how well they, too, can play...