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...department has not yet made clear. "That kind of road map is still missing out of Washington," says Daniel Prieto, research director of the Homeland Security Partnership Initiative at Harvard University. Sixteen times as many Americans take public transit every day as take planes. Does that mean the spending ought to shift to those riders? On Dec. 31, the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to provide Congress with a strategic plan for transit security that would guide budget decisions. Six months have gone by, and still no plan...
Some readers responded to our story by pointing out that American forces treat suspected terrorists better than they ought to expect. Others were alarmed by the U.S. government's lack of respect for human rights...
...their subject appears to make them downplay these issues, as when they assert somewhat too dismissively: "Kabul is a city of several million people ... and the percentage chance of being a victim is tiny." But Omrani and Leeming also do the country a service by pointing out what ought to be more widely known: most of Afghanistan is, in fact, very safe. This includes its most beautiful province, Badakhshan, where no security problems have been reported since the ousting of the Taliban in 2001. In the end, whether you choose to visit depends on your tolerance for risk...
...report on the interrogation log of detainee Mohammed al-Qahtani was criticized by readers who think that U.S. forces treat suspected terrorists better than they ought to expect. Other readers were alarmed by the government's departure from the rule of law and respect for human rights...
...Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop. "A big part of hip-hop is about representing, and they want to rep their culture." The Sundance hit Hustle & Flow, about a Memphis, Tenn., pimp who wants to be a rapper, will introduce the sound to an even wider audience and ought to boost collaborators like Memphians Al Kapone and Three 6 Mafia, not to mention Ludacris, who has a pivotal role as a rapper from the streets made good known as Skinny Black. Performers on the sound track--including T.I., Mike Jones (from Houston) and Juvenile (from New Orleans)--will...