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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
Rules governing the agency aren't just murky. In the darkest corners, few even know what they are. While refusing to talk specifics, ex-CIA officials insist they obeyed the letter of the law. "We were not a bunch of cowboys," says James Pavitt, the recently retired Deputy Director of Operations. But the military will sometimes transfer high-value captives to the CIA for handling. And the CIA, in turn, has been known to outsource some of its most difficult cases to countries where laws are no impediment to torturers. Handing someone over to a nation where torture is common...
...Those advocating postponement insist that going ahead on January 30 will mean proceeding without Iraq's Sunni population, for whom the outcome will then be delegitimized and on whose support the insurgency will be able to count for years to come. A substantial minority of the Sunni population, up to 30 percent, is believed to sympathize with the insurgency and will therefore observe a boycott call. But other, more moderate Sunni parties have withdrawn from the election on the grounds that it can't be held under present security conditions. The registering of voters and other electoral preparations in areas...
...looks out on Tripoli, it is hard to grasp the potential. The city's crumbling old Italian colonial buildings are set amid billboards hailing Libya's socialist revolution. But Libya's fans insist the possibilities are real. In the Corinthia - Libya's only luxury hotel, boasting $300-a-night rooms - Western executives crowd the lobby. American executives will need to catch up with European oil businesses, which remained in Libya through decades of U.S. sanctions. Italy's Eni, Spain's Repsol-YPF and France's Total have run Libyan subsidiaries with no American competition. Virtually all of Libya...
...Putin to crack: "I am not even sure the judge knows where Russia is," but a procedural hearing is set for this week. Yukos' lawyers say that even if the sale is a done deal, the company would seek damages against anyone helping in the sale of assets they insist are under protection of the bankruptcy court. But who to sue? Mike Lake, a spokesman for Yukos' Houston law firm Fulbright and Jaworski, said, "It's like following the bean under the walnut shell. You never know where it will wind up." - With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas Samsung...