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...judiciary will forbid this type of coercive restriction on press freedom, but if it does not we beseech the Justice Department not to exercise its full powers. If every undercover agent of the CIA was slain by our nation’s enemies, it would not be so grievous a blow to America as the precedent that is being set in this case. Intelligence, America can do without. We wish the CIA luck, but even where it fails disastrously America will pull through. When the press is muzzled, America’s inner machinery will fail...
...most grievous crime of all seems to have been her willingness to defend unpopular clients. Her list of clientele includes a Mafia hit man, a man accused of trying to kill police officers, and a blind Egyptian sheikh convicted of terrorist activities—Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. It is on his account that she has been accused and convicted of aiding terrorism...
...poisoned Viktor Yushchenko? On Dec. 17, doctors identified a massive dose of TCDD, the most toxic form of dioxin, as the cause of the Ukrainian opposition leader's grievous illness and facial disfigurement. Yushchenko claimed that the poisoning took place on Sept. 5 at a dinner with General Ihor Smeshko, head of the SBU, Ukraine's domestic security service, and Smeshko's First Deputy, Volodymyr Satsyuk. "That was the only place where no one from my team was present and no precautions were taken concerning the food," Yushchenko said on Dec. 16. The next day, campaigning...
...aging quadriplegic named Ramón Sampedro wishes to end his life. The state insists that he must live on. And as Ramón pursues his dream of a dignified death, we, of course, begin to think that a man so witty, intelligent and soulful may be wrong--that however grievous his afflictions, he ought to spare himself. Spirits as fine as his are not to be lightly wasted...
...scant attention the mainstream American press devotes to any hurricane’s path through the impoverished islands of the Caribbean is certainly frustrating. But because of the grievous destruction in both human and material terms, Jeanne seems a particularly outrageous case—almost all attention was focused on far less deadly damage to southern Florida. After all, it’s a swing state...