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...discriminatory, harsh and, paradoxically, ineffective at targeting homegrown terrorists, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said he was thinking of changing it - by extending the same stern measures to British citizens. Which approach makes Europe safer? The American camp at Guantánamo Bay may be the most notorious attempt to bypass legal protections for the accused in the name of fighting terrorism, but many European countries are marching smartly in that direction. "It's just a matter of degree," says Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package...
...Spain now permits holding terror suspects incommunicado for up to 13 days. France boasts a raft of harsh laws dating from the mid-'80s when its terrorist threat began evolving from leftist radicals toward jihadists. A suspect can be tried for "associating with wrongdoers involved in a terrorist enterprise," detained without charge for up to six days - and, once charged, jailed for three years before trial. One French case now approaching the three-year mark is that of Djamel Beghal, a veteran of al-Qaeda's Afghan camps. After being arrested in the Dubai airport, Beghal confessed...
...Mather’s pretext for initiating aggression. Where is the evidence that Kirkland has the gong? At the outbreak of war, Mather pointed to circumstantial indicators including a UPS slip signed by a notable Kirkland resident, and let their hysterical rhetoric do the rest. But time has cast harsh doubt on that slip’s authenticity—indeed, some have even suggested that high-ranking officials of Mather’s House Committee altered the slip to implicate Kirkland...
...Faculty is currently facing a harsh financial climate—what Kirby himself has called “a time of serious constraint.” We think coverage of how Kirby and his administration are, in the dean’s words, “holding down expenses and redirecting spending” would be of great interest to this community. But The Crimson has been blocked from doing such reporting. Despite roughly nine requests, for nearly a year The Crimson was denied access to Hoffman-Bray after Kirby announced the Faculty’s shaky financial status last...
...often chastised for revealing the end of a movie. But in this case, what can't be discussed is the middle, the remarkable turning point. All we dare say is that what begins as a brusquely stated but rather ordinary romance turns into a meditation on mortality that is harsh, potent and unforgiving...