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In the legal terms of the three indictments, that adds up to 66 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of the rules of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention during the decade of wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. In common parlance, the 159 pages of charges...
Spies, saboteurs and terrorists are not accorded the same rights as POWs under the Geneva Convention. The American people support the humane but no-frills manner in which our military is treating the Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners. It would be a sad day if we caved in to the...
DIED. ANNALEE FADIMAN, 85, convention-defying author and World War II correspondent for TIME; a suicide, after suffering from breast cancer and Parkinson's; in Captiva, Fla. A graduate of Stanford, Fadiman moved to China in 1941 without a journalism job but determined to report on the war raging there...
"Strong" isn't the adjective that leaps to mind when one fingers the flimsy funny money. Roughly the size of a business card, the yufu doesn't have pictures of Presidents; it doesn't come in denominations (although by local convention one yufu is equal to 100 yen, or 75...
DIED. PRINCESS MARGARET, 71, glamorous younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II known for her jet-setting lifestyle and unhappy love life, following a stroke; in London. Margaret's 1953 romance with royal aide Peter Townsend made newspaper headlines around the world because he was divorced, and after two years she...