Word: legalism
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...problem anyway. A couple of years ago, some starry-eyed technology pundits--myself included--announced the dawning of the age of free municipal wi-fi networks, when every American city would have its own city-size hot spot. It would be too cheap to meter! But the legal, technological, financial and political practicalities of municipal wi-fi have been much harder to work out than anyone expected. Even mighty Google had to back down from its plan to flood all of San Francisco with free wi-fi. Downtown Spokane, Wash., is online, though, so I guess there's still hope...
...decision marked the fourth major legal defeat for the Bush Administration on the issue of rights for foreign detainees, as the court rejected arguments that protections provided by the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and the Military Commissions Act of 2006 adequately safeguard the rights of prisoners designated "unlawful enemy combatants" by the Administration...
...Boumediene case takes its name from Lakhdar Boumediene, one of six Algerians who became legal residents of Bosnia in the 1990s. Bosnian police arrested them shortly after 9/11, fearing they might be plotting to attack the U.S. embassy in the country. Three months after that, the Supreme Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered their release for lack of evidence. But no sooner were they free than police in Bosnia took them into custody and handed them off to the America military. From there, they ended up in Guantánamo...
...Opponents of the government proposal say that the measure is an assault on Britain's legal traditions going back to the Magna Carta. "Terrorists want to destroy our liberties," said Cameron. "When we trash our liberties, we do their job for them." He brushed aside Brown's riposte that the opinion polls showed public support for the measure. "It is popular, but the point is we're supposed to do the right thing in this House...
...consuming." As he speaks, the power cuts out and a private generator kicks in, raising the day's power costs. "Buyers come to developing countries to save," sighs Srinivasan. "But in the conditions we work under, our margins are tightly squeezed." So his firm controls costs in shrewd though legal ways: "Overtime pay is twice the regular pay. To cut costs, we don't make workers put in extra hours - we just employ more people...