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...Closing Down The Dark Side," Mark Kukis says there is a problem with how the suspected detainees at a shutdown Guantánamo would be prosecuted if brought to the U.S. [Dec. 8]. If this were done, he says, "avowed terrorists" might walk away "on a technicality." In light of recent Supreme Court decisions making the writ of habeas corpus available to Guantánamo detainees, this is precisely how those detainees are to be tried, regardless of venue. To downsize a constitutional right into a technicality in the field of American jurisprudence is equivalent to considering gravity a technicality...
Each year about 700,000 women in the U.S. get their tubes tied, with the surgeries typically requiring general anesthesia, a hospital stay and a week of recovery. But according to Millennium Research Group, there are plenty of women who are done having kids but don't want to go under the knife. The health-care data firm projects the female-sterilization market will more than triple, from $80 million in 2007 to $245 million, by 2012, as these women opt for quick fixes like Essure that can cost patients as little as a doctor's visit...
...aged friend—Roth published a highly acclaimed novel, “Indignation,” set in the 1950s. Nonetheless, whenever he’s asked, he seems to shake his head sadly and admit that no one reads anymore, that literature is finished, the novel is done...
...didn’t the mayor call for this study when colleges and universities were on better financial standing?” Jon Romano, a Flaherty spokesman, wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Perhaps if we had done this work before, our city—and its budget—would be better prepared to endure the current economic downturn...
...That mission remains hugely important in the contemporary world. Its work is not yet done,” Sen said...