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...named Lawrence Walker, who found it on federal land in Utah while digging at night under a tarp. Convinced he was onto something big, the poacher tipped off a paleontologist he knew, James Kirkland, and led him to the site. Kirkland tried to protect his source but, asked under oath how the dinosaur was discovered, reluctantly turned Walker in. Kirkland got his 15 minutes of fame last week. Walker served five months in prison. --By Coco Masters
...former Taliban strongholds. There's irony in that, since the Taliban initially gained power because of its ability to quell fractious warlords and restore order. Now Hamid Karzai's government is sending out feelers to former Taliban fighters, offering some of them amnesty if they take a public oath of loyalty to the new Afghan constitution...
...Under the proposed amnesty, a Taliban fighter would have to lay down his gun and take a public oath of loyalty to the Afghan constitution. So far, according to Rocketi, it has been a tough sell. "The Taliban are afraid they'll be put in prison, or killed," he says. That's an understandable fear. During their five-year rule, the Taliban made many enemies. But even in Omar's village of Singesar, locals say they have been trying to persuade Taliban relatives to return home, now that the rains have come and planting season is underway. A nomad preacher...
...online equivalent of the Tennis Court Oath, Harvard’s graduate students will soon have an opportunity to express their dissatisfaction at the higher estates...
Being forced to defend the right’s irresponsible agenda is only one way in which Frist has abandoned his Hippocratic Oath. The Medicare bill which he lobbied for, championed, and then navigated through Congress in 2003 did little to curb soaring prescription drug prices or aid Medicare recipients, who on average already spend 20 percent of their income on prescription drugs. The bill did wonders, however, for the Frist family business, Columbia/HCA—the nation’s leading owners of hospitals...