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Bush's treatment of accused terrorists troubles many legal experts, who say the Administration appears to be making up the rules as it goes along. American Taliban John Walker Lindh and foreign suspects Zacarias Moussaoui and Richard Reid all face federal trial, but Yasser Hamdi, the Louisiana-born Saudi captured last December in Afghanistan, is being held in Norfolk as an enemy combatant. Now Padilla is being held as a combatant as well--though the Administration says it has no plans to try him before a tribunal. "The real test case is Padilla," says Duke professor Scott Silliman, who specializes...
...twist, Stewart's syndicated TV show on Thursday aired a rerun of an April 2000 episode featuring Stewart cooking gumbo with Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who, with G.O.P. Representative James Greenwood of Pennsylvania, is leading the committee investigating her. Stewart's office called Tauzin to be sure he knew the show was running. Stewart said the airing was "a matter of course." Her spokesperson said notifying Tauzin was "routine." It's the only thing about this saga that...
...Burnett is right. In partnership with the Coen brothers, T Bone (real name: Joseph Henry) releases this week the first products from DMZ Records, a boutique label that plans to ignore every bit of conventional record-industry sales wisdom. DMZ's first two releases, both Burnett productions, are the Louisiana-laden sound track to Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and a new album--the 186th--from mountain-soul legend and O Brother featured player Ralph Stanley. There will be no large promotional budgets, no appeals to commercial radio. Burnett is convinced these records will sell: "People are much...
...something he’d spent his whole childhood in Louisiana doing and something he did so well in high school that it garnered him attention from top baseball programs like Tulane and Louisiana State (his father Jim’s alma mater...
...There aren’t that many people at Harvard from Louisiana,” San Salvador said. “If you look in the facebook, there’s probably three or four. But the senior I stayed with on my visit—Jason Keck [’99]—was actually from Louisiana. I had played against his high school before. He had found his niche here and really enjoyed [Harvard] as much...