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...Haven, Connecticut, U.S. The detentions at Gitmo are immoral, illegal by international standards and profoundly un-American. It's time to shut this abomination down before we create even more enemies than we already have. We should try the detainees we can't immediately clear, punish the ones we convict and release the rest. Any possibility of extracting useful intelligence from the detainees passed years ago. Ken Keaton Lauderhill, Florida, U.S. Although I am a great believer in the U.S. as a force for good, the thought of Guantánamo Bay leaves me sickened and disillusioned. The detentions show...
...detentions at Gitmo are immoral, illegal by international standards and profoundly un-American. It's time to shut down this abomination before we create even more enemies than we already have. We should try the detainees we can't immediately clear, punish the ones we convict and promptly release the rest. Any possibility of extracting useful intelligence from the detainees passed years...
...Enron's former accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, as well as former Wall Street trader Frank Quattrone, have successfully appealed jury instructions based on the notion of willful blindness. When Quattrone's conviction was overturned two months ago, Skilling attorney Daniel Petrocelli told TIME, "I think it's a reminder of how dangerous it is that prosecutors can overreact in putting businesses on trial." In Andersen's case, the U.S. Supreme Court voided a witness-tampering conviction of the accounting firm by ruling that the trial's jury was wrongly told it could convict the firm for shredding documents during...
...EDMUND WHITE His mother was a psychologist. "I must have been eight," White tells us, "when [she] gave me my first Rorschach." He survived her many attempts to analyze him, well enough to become a lyrical novelist (A Boy's Own Story) and a shrewd biographer of the French convict-litterateur Jean Genet. Life takes White through New York and Paris as well as through lovers, hustlers and the shopworn theatrics of S&M. The chapters that detail his forays into sexual abjection don't always work, but in the end, his book bears out the line he quotes from...
...company executives, and now a visiting professor at the University of Texas-Austin. "They're sort of apples and oranges," argues Buell of the Quattrone and Enron cases; the Quattrone case involved blocking a grand jury investigation, while Enron concerns internal accounting fraud. Even in striking down Quattrone's conviction, he noted, the appeals court panel indicated there was enough evidence to convict if jury instructions had been proper...