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...decision to try Abbasi and Begg in Guantánamo. Luigi Manconi, a former Italian senator who now heads the human- rights watchdog A Buon Diritto, thinks the Pentagon is in the grip of a preventive-war mentality. "It's an attitude that we must strike the haystack in the hope of hitting the needle." Legally, Blair has few good options. He can't guarantee to Washington that the two men would face trial in the U.K. because the Crown Prosecution Service is independent, and is likely to conclude that any fruits of their interrogations in Cuba are inadmissible. Stephen...
...many couples, the challenge doubled from finding one suitable tenure offer to two. And finding two acceptable tenure offers at the same institution—or in the same state, for that matter—is like trying to find two needles in the same haystack...
...Catch A Cheat" paints an optimistic picture of U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq, owing to new tools of detection [WORLD, Nov. 25]. But discovering nuclear material will still be like finding a needle in a haystack. Sending in a dozen U.N. inspectors to search a potential 700 weapons-production and -storage sites spread throughout Iraq doesn't seem too promising. Saddam Hussein wouldn't let us in if he didn't think he could keep us from finding his illegal armaments. Jesse Murray Emporia, Kans...
...task may well prove impossible. "In order to know who she was, we would need to find an inscription in Hebrew, and find it on an object that was unequivocally linked to the 10th century B.C.," Glanzman says. "That's like trying to find a needle in a haystack that's been buried under 10 meters of sand...
...torch and a dog. Now the hunter is the hunted: more than 100 police, of a Northern Territory force of fewer than 1,000, are searching for the gunman, but the area they must cover?a million sq. km?is daunting. "We're looking for a needle in a haystack," says Commander Fields, "and you don't get a haystack much bigger than the Northern Territory...