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...terrorism, but many European countries are marching smartly in that direction. "It's just a matter of degree," says Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package for Britain, including lowering the standard of evidence needed to convict accused terrorists from "beyond reasonable doubt" to "the balance of probabilities"; keeping evidence secret from defendants; requiring defense counsel, and even judges, to be picked from a panel with security clearances; and eliminating juries. Civil-liberties advocates are horrified. "It's very disturbing," says Barry Hugill, spokesman for the advocacy...
Australian novelist Peter Carey frequently finds inspiration in his country's rich social history. In True History of the Kelly Gang, he chronicled the exploits of the bushranger Ned Kelly. In Jack Maggs, he penned a brilliant fantasia about an Aussie convict crossing paths with Charles Dickens. Carey's new novel, My Life as a Fake, is an absorbing, mind-bending tale incorporating another odd corner of Australian history: one of the nation's most bizarre literary scandals, the Ern Malley hoax...
...fell to loosely associated, legalized gangs headed by popular warlords. Trained in the Yugoslav army as a sniper, Neven joins a paramilitary unit made up of "distinguished sportsmen, all-in-all criminals, or a little bit of both," and commanded by Ismet Bajramovic, AKA Celo, a violent, handsome ex-convict with intense charisma...
...Initially it seemed state prosecutors would convict few Hindus for their part in the riots. But last month India's Supreme Court ordered a retrial. And last week's events signaled an apparent further widening of the gap between the Indian establishment and the VHP, when months of rancor over the BJP's delay in building a temple to the Hindu god Ram at Ayodhya spilled over into the streets...
...convict someone involved in identifying Joseph Wilson's wife, prosecutors would need to prove that the leaker knew she was a covert agent, not just an employee of the CIA. Because of this standard, the law makes it difficult to nail an aide who heard at the water cooler that Wilson's wife was a CIA employee and told that to a reporter. In that case, a defense lawyer might successfully argue that the leaker's motive was not to blow her cover but rather to imply nepotism in Joseph Wilson's assignment to Niger...