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...PLEADED GUILTY. MAHER (MIKE) HAWASH, 38, a West Bank-born software engineer, to a single charge of conspiring to help the Taliban, as part of a deal reached with prosecutors to secure his testimony against six other suspects; in Portland, Oregon. Hawash admitted that in October 2001 he traveled with a group to Hong Kong and Kashgar in an attempt to enter Pakistan and Afghanistan to wage war against the U.S. He is expected to be sentenced to 7 to 10 years in prison...
...charges and were given prison sentences ranging from four to 12 years. The Maganas have been tied to 20 large gardens with more than 100,000 plants in the Sequoia, Sierra, Stanislaus and Mendocino national forests. They also supplied workers for pot farms on federal land in Arkansas, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. According to investigators, the Maganas and other groups have used profits from methamphetamine operations to expand into marijuana. They own gas stations, haciendas and million-dollar resorts in Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Michoacan and other parts of Mexico. "They have tremendous networks involving legal businesses, money laundering...
...Consider those cases in which outside values trump the patient's expressed desire. The first is life. Even if the patient asks you to, you may not kill him. In some advanced precincts - Holland and Oregon, for example - this is thought to be a quaint idea, and the state permits physicians to perform "assisted suicide." That is a terrible mistake, for the state and for the physician. And not only because it embarks us on a slippery slope where putting people to death in the name of some higher humanity becomes progressively easier...
Consider those cases in which outside values trump the patient's expressed desire. The first is life. Even if the patient asks you to, you may not kill him. In some advanced precincts--Holland and Oregon, for example--this is thought to be a quaint idea, and the state permits physicians to perform "assisted suicide." That is a terrible mistake, for the state and for the physician. And not only because it embarks us on a slippery slope where putting people to death in the name of some higher humanity becomes progressively easier...
...upending of Our Town into the tale of a small-minded Colorado community that torments a beautiful stranger (Nicole Kidman) and fully earns its violent comeuppance. The other film arrived with little fanfare but walked away with the major awards. Elephant, which transposes the Columbine, Colo., massacre to an Oregon high school, won the Palme d'Or as top film and the Best Director prize for Gus Van Sant. Dogville was shut out--not a kibble...