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...Iraqi claims for war damage compensation is not available. Critics of the program, especially of the money paid out to the families of innocent Iraqi families killed in conflict, complain that the military does not proactively release these documents. Last year the ACLU filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act and received about 2,000 pages of information, a snapshot of part of 2005 and 2006, but it is by no means comprehensive or complete. The U.S. has been known to pay up to $2,500 for an "accidental" killing...
What She Left Behind As a Pakistani Canadian I read with great interest your coverage of Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan [Jan. 14]. While I sincerely condole her untimely and fiery death, I must agree with William Dalrymple that her legacy was "mediocre." Far from being a martyr for freedom and democracy, she chose to live a life of luxury in self-imposed exile - in distant Dubai. Although she was Prime Minister of Pakistan twice, she did little to improve the conditions of the masses, particularly those of women and the poor. Jalaluddin S. Hussain, Brossard, Canada...
...person in every generation with all those strengths,” he said. “He told me, ‘in science you can’t give great salaries, you can’t live the high life, but what you can have is complete creative freedom.’ And that’s something he held to with everyone in his sphere. He was just pure passion, pure curiosity. He loved to share and loved to teach.” Ingber is the Judah Folkman professor of vascular biology in the Department of Pathology...
...Hampshire Mike Huckabee talked a lot about freedom, the Fair Tax and limited government. Down here, he has begun speaking in depth about his personal faith, telling crowds big and small, including roughly 2,000 who attended church in Spartanburg on Sunday, about his experience in Bible Camp at the age of 10, when he accepted Jesus Christ as his savior...
When he announced the three days of protests, Odinga called on supporters to meet him for a mass rally in Nairobi's Uhuru - or Freedom - Park. On Wednesday, Odinga's chief advisers, known as "The Pentagon," got as far as a few of Nairobi's finer hotels before police with truncheons and shields barred their way to the park. Eventually, they gave up and went home. The main police targets just across from the park were journalists, who were repeatedly tear-gassed and charged by police on horseback...