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Dean S. Miller, currently a fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, called the study a “dubious enterprise,” and said that different types of media have different methods of coverage and are therefore impossible to analyze together...
Tunisia's largest trading partner, France, broke years of silence over the country's human-rights record when President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Tunis last July. He told Ben Ali he was concerned about the arrest of a prominent lawyer, Mohammed Abbou, on what some regarded as dubious charges of assaulting a colleague and defaming the judiciary. Abbou was freed shortly after, ending two years in jail. In late October, the European Parliament's human-rights committee head, Hélène Flautre, visited Chebbi in the fourth week of his hunger strike, and told reporters that Tunisia's policies...
...statements are needed. Thankfully, Senate Judiciary Committee Charman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and other prominent Democrats have vowed to stall Mukasey’s confirmation until he clearly his expresses his opposition to waterboarding. We applaud this decision and hope that our next Attorney General can improve on the dubious human rights record of his predecessor, who once famously characterized the Geneva Convention as “quaint.” Furthermore, presidential candidates should openly condemn waterboarding and all other forms of torture. All Democratic candidates have signed a pledge from the American Freedom Campaign vowing to oppose torture...
...fourth biggest profit year ever. "The reason for all that is diversification," he contends. Banks that used to be pinned down in one state, doing nothing but taking deposits and making loans, can now operate coast-to-coast selling everything from stocks to insurance. Kovacevich does profess to be dubious of competitors' efforts to break onto Wall Street in a big way--because he thinks that "transaction oriented" investment bankers and "relationship oriented" traditional bankers don't mix. He does not, however, think the business is in for a repeat of the serious troubles of the 1980s...
...billion Internet gambling industry and bring it under the jurisdiction of the federal government. On Monday, Nesson, a specialist in cyberlaw, attended a meeting with Frank in Washington to discuss the measure. “I’m in support of [the bill], but I’m dubious about its likelihood of passage,” Nesson, who is an online poker player himself, said in an interview. “I...much more strongly support an initiative that would recognize the legality of tournament poker.” Nesson said he is studying what introducing such...