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...after Blunkett quit, the country's highest court sank one of his toughest law-and-order legacies. It voted 8-1 that foreign terror suspects could no longer be detained indefinitely without trial, because the emergency the government declared to square this with European human rights law was invalid, and indefinite detention too extreme. Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights organization Liberty, called it "the most important constitutional decision in recent history." Lacking Blunkett's personal stake in this reversal, Clarke may find it easier to manage a nimble recovery - and, perhaps, soften the authoritarian instinct of which Blunkett...
...Inside, a movie from Spain, takes the issue of euthanasia to a new level of cinematic artfulness. Ramón is played by the great Javier Bardem, who disguises his relative youth (he's 35) but does not hide the sparkle and sadness of his eyes, the irony the invalid finds in his condition. Ramón's body may be essentially dead, but his spirit--angry, calculating, humorous, demanding--is wonderfully alive. The strikingly beautiful Belén Rueda is Bardem's equal as the lawyer who takes Ramón's case and falls in love with...
...told the cheering throng. "We should not leave this square until we secure victory." And his supporters did just that. On Saturday evening, after six days of nonstop peaceful protests, the state and its candidate were forced to back down. In a nonbinding vote, Parliament declared the poll results invalid but did not recommend a date for the rerun, although many deputies expect that to happen in mid-December. The Supreme Court, which has final jurisdiction over elections, will examine the fraud allegations and make its ruling this week. But news that Yanukovych would not be inaugurated caused jubilation...
...plenty of factions have expressed an interest in the outcome of the election. Each of the three branches of Ukraine’s government has jumped headlong into the quagmire: the Parliament passed a series of non-binding resolutions declaring the election invalid, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma has endorsed a new vote, and the Supreme Court this week is hearing Yushchenko’s challenges. The international community, too, is weighing in, with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government endorsing the election results and several diplomats from the European Union expressing implicit support for the Western-leaning Yushchenko...
...this year. UHS, with its roughly 8,400 doses of the vaccine, announced that it will not vaccinate otherwise healthy students in the foreseeable future. No doubt, healthy Harvardians will survive the flu, and it is perfectly reasonable that no young adult be vaccinated until each elder, infant, and invalid has been protected—groups for whom the flu could be a death sentence...