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...Lyon, and pro-Nazi French militia leader Paul Touvier were both allowed to die of cancer in prison during the 1990s. But neither of those men had friends in the French power élite, nor did they have the March 2002 law that Papon's stable of lawyers could exploit. Emboldened by last week's ruling, his legal team says it will move to have his 1998 conviction overturned - depriving survivors and victims' families of even that symbolic solace. And Papon will live freely and in luxury thanks to an act of mercy he failed to show those sent...
...American planners' worst fear. City combat blunts the U.S. military advantages of speed and knowledge. What the Pentagon calls "urban canyons" offers hideouts for foes and civilians as well as sniper nests and underground lairs from which combatants can strike. Buildings create vast "dead spaces" for an enemy to exploit out of the sight of those trying to kill Saddam. They hinder communication and hamper anything flying low, like helicopters, spy drones and warplanes assisting forces on the ground. In cities, mobility and maneuver--two tenets of U.S. ground-combat strategy--hit a dead...
...advances in computer technology, communications and weapons of mass destruction. We are entering a period in which a small number of people, operating without overt state sponsorship but using the enormous power of modern computers, biogenetic pathogens, air transport and even small nuclear weapons, will be able to exploit the tremendous vulnerabilities of contemporary open societies. Because the origin of these attacks can be effectively disguised, fundamental tenets of the nation-state will change...
...tourists and Western pedophiles make for high-profile arrests. Yet they aren't the prime culprits. "Foreigners are not the only ones who exploit our children," says Mu Sochua, Cambodia's Minister for Women's Affairs. "The real disease comes from within." Indeed, child protection advocates say locals are the biggest offenders?and the ones least likely to be caught and punished. In Cambodia, the threat of punishment is miniscule, as there is no legislation prohibiting sex with children. (However, some cases have been brought against men who have raped children.) Meanwhile, child advocates say the fear of AIDS...
...disputed regions claimed by both India and Pakistan?stamped with the slogan "too good to share." Politicians condemned the campaign for trivializing a sensitive conflict that has cost thousands of lives and keeps the two nuclear-armed countries on the brink of war. "It just shows how multinationals will exploit anything for commercial purposes," complained Vinod Tawde, Bombay branch leader of India's ruling party. Cadbury's India Ltd. hurriedly apologized, saying it had "no intention whatsoever to offend the sentiments of the public...