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...council first offered a New York shuttle bus one-way on a trial basis last winter break. Due to its success, they offered service both ways for Presidents’ Day Weekend...
...want [intelligence] from as many sources as possible. We want diversity, we don't want to be led by the nose by any one of them. We have to examine it critically because there's a lot disinformation around the world, and the more information you have, the better you're able to compare. We think [intelligence support for UNMOVIC] should be in principle a one-way traffic. It is in governments' interests that they should [point us] to interesting places, and if we then find something that is significant, that is the reward - rather than "you give...
...Cultural trade in movies used to be a one-way street that ran West to East. Hollywood or Paris would disgorge some spiffy hit, and before you could say call my lawyer, an unofficial Asian remake would be in the theaters. So Hong Kong ripped off Luc Besson's Nikita in a homage called Black Cat. Plot theft is as common a factor in the Indian film industry as doleful, dancing heroines. Just this year, the U.S. thriller What Lies Beneath was turned into Raaz, and the Polish art film A Short Film About Love became the scandalous Ek Chhotisi...
...With hindsight, of course, the U.S. military should have screened its al-Qaeda suspects more rigorously and relied less on Afghan bounty hunters before doling out one-way tickets to Cuba. But the Bush administration was desperate to avert another terrorist attack, and to catch bin Laden. This haste, say human rights activists, led the administration to disregard Geneva Convention rules for the proper treatment of war prisoners. Meanwhile, a year on, the Guantanamo process has bogged down. Every suspect has been interviewed dozens of times by U.S. intelligence and anti-terrorism agencies. Yet not a single prisoner has been...
...With hindsight, of course, the U.S. military should have screened its al-Qaeda suspects more rigorously and relied less on Afghan bounty hunters before doling out one-way tickets to Cuba. But the Bush Administration was desperate to avert another terrorist attack, and to catch bin Laden. This haste, say human rights activists, led the Administration to disregard Geneva Convention rules for the proper treatment of war prisoners. Meanwhile, a year on, the Guant?namo process has bogged down. Every suspect has been interviewed dozens of times by U.S. intelligence and antiterrorism agencies. Yet not a single prisoner has been brought...