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Extradition, the transfer of an accused person from one nation to another to face criminal charges, has always been based on voluntary agreements, which can contain explicit exceptions. Most nations, for example, will not extradite suspects accused of "political crimes." The U.S. will not extradite in some cases in which the defendant is a political refugee, cannot get a fair trial or is likely to be tortured...
...ideas they quickly come to believe are true, and these dolls are highly suggestive," says Lenore Terr, a professor of psychology at the University of California at San Francisco. For example, some of the dolls lack hands and have only painted eyes, yet they have highly explicit genital areas. Terr stresses that normally inquisitive children who play with these dolls can mistakenly be suspected of having been abused...
...Baghdad. All this hand-wringing makes it seem that children have not managed to get through wars before and that death is something that can be understood, if only enough network anchors and child psychologists take to the airwaves to explain it. Fortunately, the average child, who sees more explicit violence viewing Saturday-morning cartoons, is not likely to remain alarmed too long over anything that justifies increased television-watching privileges and provides air cover for a variety of mischief...
...factories, construction sites and shipyards across the U.S., girly pinups -- often so anatomically explicit they would make Betty Grable blush -- are the workingman's constant companion. Although women hold 8.6% of skilled blue- collar jobs, their presence has done little to diminish the existence of these graphic images. For their part, courts have been reluctant to rule that pornographic pictures constitute a form of sexual harassment in the workplace, mainly because such photos are ubiquitous...
There are other compelling explanations for Washington's denials. An explicit U.S. threat to kill Saddam might encourage terrorist attacks on U.S. targets, including President Bush, and might subject allied POWs to even worse treatment by Iraq. It could conceivably make assassination a more acceptable political tool. Most important, if the allies are seen to have slain Saddam on purpose, they will make him a martyr among many Arabs. Washington's hope, and it is probably an unrealistic one, is that if Saddam dies "incidentally" in a raid, his canonization can be avoided...