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...government, which sent draft legislation to Parliament - for consideration this week - that would make such personal data available, without a court order, not only to the police and other security services - who already have wide investigative powers - but also to a broad assortment of national and local bodies, including district councils and health and social-services authorities. "Clearly, this is not about the police pursuing terrorists or serious criminals," says Roger Bingham, a spokesman for the human-rights group Liberty. "This raises the possibility of civil servants trawling through data collected for one purpose and used for another." The government...
Spitzer, who grew up in the fancy Riverdale section of the Bronx and went to Princeton and Harvard Law School, first made a name for himself as an assistant district attorney prosecuting members of the Gambino crime family. "His jaw actually juts," the New York Times once wrote. And while his work and ambition have elicited comparisons with Rudy Giuliani, who came to prominence with high-profile insider-trading cases during the 1980s, Spitzer says, "Notice the difference--I didn't take anybody out in handcuffs...
...Percentage of young Californians who are overweight. The Oakland school district is rolling out the nation's first district-wide ban on selling junk food in school buildings...
...recent attacks. Earlier Vajpayee refused to meet Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, at a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, until cross-border terrorism ceases. Police in Indian-administered Kashmir said that they killed at least six members of Lashkar-e-Toiba, a group of Islamist militants, in the frontier district of Poonch. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went to India and Pakistan to step up diplomatic pressure on the antagonists. MIDDLE EAST Car Bomb Reignites West Bank Violence A suicide bomber drove a van packed with explosives into a bus filled with soldiers in Megiddo junction in northern Israel, killing...
Prosecutors chose to treat both cases identically, according to Seth I. Horowitz, spokesperson for the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office...