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That isn't likely to happen anytime soon. Like its whaling ally Iceland, Japan gets its meat by exploiting a loophole in the IWC's moratorium that permits members to cull whales for scientific study--a practice cetologists now consider mostly unnecessary because of advances in tracking and dna technology...
The first clear warning sign came in January 2005 during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Reinterpreting the meaning of a U.S. reservation to the Convention Against Torture, Gonzales claimed that the treaty’s prohibition of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment?...
“Bernarda Alba” was a revolutionary play in its time, a compelling critique of the dangers of social convention and the agents of repression. Birnbaum has stayed true to this avant-garde legacy, infusing Hare’s new, modern translation with her own creative stage...
They play in a lonely driveway under a forlorn trumpet and two drums, this silent band. At a yellowed keyboard markered with “Katrina Band of New Orleans,” a gorilla plays forever, an empty bottle of Bacardi in his lap. Next to the pianist, a...
The police commissioner whose department responded to the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks discussed balancing counterterrorism policing and democratic ideals with two other panelists at the Institute of Politics last night. New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the NYPD seeks to ?...