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...Speaking outside Belfast's Laganside Courts after Thursday's judgment, Breen's editor, Noirin Hegarty, described a journalist's protection of his or her sources as "an absolute value, not a convenient principle." But what swayed the Belfast Recorder Tom Burgess was the risk to Breen's life. In his ruling, Judge Burgess said complying with the police request could lead to "a breach of [Breen's] right to life under the European Convention [on Human Rights]" "The Real IRA have killed, and attempted to kill, for much less. During the attack on the soldiers at Massereene barracks, the gunmen...
...wary about the Business School's participation, which he said seemed "pretty disappointing, considering how much money the school has." But due to the complicated mechanisms for assigning financial aid at each of Harvard's schools and within the Yellow Ribbon Program itself, he said he would refrain from judgment "until we see how individual aid packages turn out."Susan Gilbert, director of MBA financial aid at HBS, said her school was happy to support such an important initiative and that $5,000 represented an "appropriate amount for the first year of our program."Day said the University's decentralized...
...virus. But however arbitrary the alert levels are - and however unprecedented or confusing the H1N1 situation may be - the pandemic-phase system was devised by the WHO itself. So if the group allows itself to be influenced by political pressure or lets the alert levels become a simple judgment call from within the organization, then something will be lost. "The WHO is supposed to be an independent body we can all respect," says Osterholm. "The longer they wait on this, the closer they get to losing that...
...million awarded in Monday's judgment falls well below the $15 million sought by the victims' families, and it remains unclear if the Real IRA's financial assets will be sufficient to cover the payout, meaning the sums that are finally awarded to the victims' families could be significantly less. (Read "Could It Happen Again...
...after eight years of disappointment and frustration, it's not the money that matters to the Omagh families. As they posed in the sun for a group photograph outside the courthouse, the families refused to describe the judgment as any kind of hollow victory. "People threw doubt on whether we would ever get justice," says Edmund Gibson, a former policeman whose sister Esther was killed in the bomb attack. "What we have done today is defied the odds...