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...Shadowy Cells Your notebook item "Outing Secret Jails" [Nov. 14] said the Washington Post reported that the CIA has held captured al-Qaeda members in covert detention centers in several East European countries as well as in Thailand, Afghanistan and Guant?namo Bay, Cuba. Holding prisoners in secret and denying them recourse to judicial hearings in a timely fashion are more than appalling. The Bush Administration seems not to understand that if you want to "export" democracy, you need to act like a democracy, not a totalitarian state. Say all you want about the ends justifying the means, the reality...
...pleasant kind of humming. Happy, unself-conscious, slightly flighty and more than a little girly. It comes out whenever I halt the conversation to scribble in my notebook to catch up. And when I run out of the restaurant to feed the parking meter, she grabs the pad and writes, "Note to self: buy Felicity presents." She giggles and touches my arm and asks me lots of questions about myself. If all that weren't femme enough, she refers to herself by her nickname, Flicka; points out her favorite knitting store across the street; and admits that the night before...
...long for those days. Now many of us are so afraid to criticize each other that I find myself manually ticking away the seconds in my notebook to pass the time in some courses (excluding this semester where all my classes are excellent) out of dreadful boredom. Perhaps we now have so much faith in economics that we only challenge each other’s assumptions. Or maybe we’re so jaded by interest group politics that we think our opinions don’t matter anymore...
...Paris, Waly keeps a notebook on his bedside table, in which he writes lists of the cash amounts he gives each month to couriers. They fly to Mali - where remittances account for 3.2% of the country's national income - with wads of euros stuffed in their pockets and luggage. With about 300 people from his village of Ambadedi working in Paris - an estimated one-quarter of Ambadedi's entire population - the community has a well-organized network to transfer money, much of which is aimed at avoiding the hefty commissions from banks. "I write careful notes," Waly says. "'Here...
...first time I walked into the locker room to get a pre-game notebook item, the reaction was comical. Jaws dropped. Hands scrambled for towels. One player strolled out of the shower, saw me, and hopped back in with a yelp that would probably be unprintable if translated here...