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...hold our public officials accountable for what they say. We need to repair our image as a superpower and calm the global hornet's nest this Administration and congressional leadership have stirred up. Richard Zack New Providence, New Jersey, U.S. Give Women a Hand "Why Merkel is not enough" [jan. 30] reported on the difficulties that German women face when they try to combine career and family. We want our women to take part in the professional and cultural life of our society. The problem is that our government does very little to support working mothers. We hope that Angela...
...sole survivor of the Sago Mine explosion on Jan. 2 that killed 12 other coal miners, Randal McCloy Jr., 26, is making "miraculous" strides, his doctors say. Still undergoing therapy at a rehab center in Morgantown, W.Va., McCloy--brain damaged from inhaling carbon monoxide for more than 40 hours--can walk with help and speaks well enough to ask for hamburgers, says family spokeswoman Aly Goodwin Gregg. McCloy--below, with daughter Isabel before the accident--made his first visit home last week and feasted on ribs. He should be well enough to go home for good in two weeks, says...
...have been stressed out during finals, but at least you didn’t have to take your tests in handcuffs. That’s what Mojtaba Saminejad, a student at Tehran’s Azad University, had to do on Jan. 21. Saminejad was sentenced to two years for nothing more than “insulting the Supreme Guide.”In a country referred to as the “largest prison for journalists in the Middle East,” Iranians face stiff penalties for exercising their right to free speech. Since April 2000, nearly...
Bakshi was released on Jan. 3 after the Zimbabwean government dropped its charge of “removing information from the country,” Aggeler wrote...
...officer at Abu Ghraib, who has said he had approval from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a former commandant of Guantanamo who helped establish interrogation rules at Abu Ghraib. According to Pappas, Miller approved the use of dogs to extract information from detainees. In a statement given under oath on Jan. 25 after he was granted immunity from prosecution, Col. Pappas said he personally approved the use of dogs for a handful of prisoners. That approval, he said, came just days before now notorious photographs - since introduced as evidence in the Smith trial - were taken of Smith threatening a cowering prisoner...