Word: inspector
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Heartfelt and handsomely made, Osama is the story not just of one unfortunate girl but of a nation besieged by autocratic theocracy. The film roams Kabul's streets for vignettes of the regime's depredations. When a Taliban inspector arrives at a hospital where a female doctor is treating an old man, the doctor must conceal herself by quickly donning a burqa and claiming she is the wife of her patient...
...Iraq adventure has been a mistake. Bush's aides have pointedly noted that Gaddafi initiated contact on March 19, as the first salvo of missiles rained down on Baghdad. And as the search for weapons of mass destruction continues to come up virtually empty in Iraq--top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay says he may quit as head of the effort--Bush can at least claim credit for having neutralized one nation's WMD threat...
...second adverse ruling for the Administration, a federal appellate court ruled that detainees at Guantanamo cannot be denied access to the U.S. court system. And the Justice Department's inspector general issued a report detailing physical and verbal abuses by prison guards of immigrants rounded up after Sept. 11. Videotapes show guards at New York's Metropolitan Detention Center slamming detainees' heads into walls. Allegedly, conversations with lawyers were illegally recorded. The Justice Department is investigating the alleged abuses...
...Force. Then just days before Condit's resignation, Boeing fired its chief financial officer, Michael Sears, for "unethical conduct" in his conversations with an Air Force official handling a $20 billion contract for 100 Boeing refueling tankers. The deal is on hold while the Pentagon's inspector general investigates...
...could help save human lives - but at an obvious cost in animal suffering. Filmed secretly in 2001 and screened at a hearing in Cambridge late last year, Cutting Edge was the most graphic evidence presented at what might otherwise have seemed a mundane bureaucratic event: an appeal to government inspectors of a planning application that had twice been denied by the local council. At issue was Cambridge University's proposed $40 million state-of-the-art primate-research facility - a project that is bitterly opposed by animal-rights activists and critically important to the British government, which views scientific research...