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...Dordogne takes its name from the largest of three rivers that cross the region. Get an overview of the river basin from the village of Domme, improbably perched a few hundred meters up on a large limestone plateau; the pay-per-view telescopes there will keep the kids intrigued. Lower down at La Roque Gageac-a compact village at the foot of the sheer cliff face-you'll find medieval ramparts and natural caves that will wow budding geologists...
...don’t want to sound too paranoid or cynical. After all, the last few months have also witnessed some first-rate investigative reporting into the Abu Ghraib scandal by the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, and 60 Minutes II. But journalists who cross the White House should be forewarned—this is an Administration known for blacklisting its perceived enemies in the press corps, withholding interviews and other goodies. You can hardly blame journalists for worrying that an indiscrete article or bit of footage might land them out on the street, looking for work with...
Glaeser’s “important work on the relationship between segregation and opportunity may help cross the lines between, economics, policy and urban structures,” said Professor Education and Social Policy Gary A. Orfield, who is co-director of the Harvard Civil Rights Project...
Many legislators, joined by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which monitors the Geneva Conventions, say these new rules violated the treaty and sowed the seeds for abuse. The Senate Armed Services Committee released a one-page document, "Interrogation Rules of Engagement," which the Pentagon claimed was produced by minor officers in the prison's military-intelligence brigade, that went into effect right after Miller's visit. The right column of the page outlined rough practices that could be used if Sanchez personally approved them. The list included sleep deprivation, stress positions, lengthy isolation, dietary manipulation and the presence...
...exactly those kinds of improper or illegal techniques, say the Red Cross and other human rights experts, that the Bush Administration has systematically applied at U.S. detention centers around the world. When the President declared his no-holds-barred war on terrorism, top officials announced that the Geneva Conventions wouldn't cover prisoners held at Guantanamo. A soldier involved with intelligence at the base told TIME that interrogators there had been formally briefed on how the treaty didn't apply to their captives. "There were no bright lines on what you could and couldn't do," he says...