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...question of guilt in a command structure is no less complex now than it was then; Waldheim was no card-carrying Nazi, but he had been an officer in a unit that had a very dirty war in the Balkans. His clean-vest spiel particularly rankled me because I'd been spending a fair amount of time in Banja Luka myself. Less than a year before my interview with Waldheim, the city's principal mosque had been totally razed by Serbs, and most of the Muslim population driven out of the city. In the summer of 1992, Serbs in Banja...
...pages. Reading about Darfur was most depressing, but when I turned the page and saw snowy ski slopes, hotels and bars, the comfort and enjoyment suddenly never felt more disgusting. Did you deliberately arrange to have the "Best of Asia" section come right after the Darfur article to induce guilt? I don't know whether to condemn or congratulate you, but I'm already reconsidering my annual vacation plan. Karson Chu, Hong Kong...
...don’t believe the reactionary “nattering nabobs of negativism,” who demand self-sacrifice for deliverance from impending doom. The challenges of our age will not be solved by self-righteous prating and an overblown guilt complex, but by practical, self-confident innovation, and a recognition that capitalist consumerism has brought clear-cut benefits for the vast majority of mankind...
...issue? Is it a case where biological evidence was collected during the initial investigation?" Inmates must complete a detailed questionnaire and provide the Innocence Project with backup material, like police files. "About half the time, we go to the lab, and it turns out the DNA testing confirms guilt," he says. "But that means in 50% of the cases we take on, it turns out they're innocent...
...profile from the crime scene showed a direct link to the children's next-door neighbor, who is currently in prison for sexually assaulting two women in the early 1990s. "When we first read the summary of the case, it sounded like convincing evidence of Halsey's guilt," says Vanessa Potkin, an Innocence Project attorney who worked on the case. But after multiple rounds of DNA testing, Halsey?s innocence is undeniable, she says. Halsey, however, still faces the significant obstacles that many exonerees experience in rebuilding their lives, including reconnecting with family or friends and the struggle for housing...