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Goldsmith faced criticism last month from a handful of Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty members who alleged that he had helped the Bush administration devise a policy justifying harsh treatment of detainees. Goldsmith’s predecessor as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel signed a now-infamous Aug. 1, 2002 memo, which said that torturing suspected terrorists “may be justified” under...
...pitted them against the Yanukovych camp. "I know they're already standing in line: one person wants natural gas, one wants oil; dozens more want ministerial positions." The fear is that turning over chunks of state power to entrenched oligarchs will make Yushchenko's government little different from its predecessor. The Ukrainian economy is a haven for venality and insider deals: as the U.S. State Department puts it, its economy "remains burdened by excessive government regulation, corruption and lack of law enforcement." The anticorruption watchdog Transparency International calls it one of the world's most corrupt countries, on par with...
...awkward status quo. Having failed embarrassingly in his efforts to engineer a pro-Russian regime in Kiev, Putin will likely opt for a waiting game, and discreetly sow discontent among the Russian speakers of eastern Ukraine. He'll be hoping that Yushchenko will be overwhelmed and, like his predecessor, turn to Russia for support. For all the external pressure on Yushchenko, he is already fully aware of one of democracy's sometimes uncomfortable iron laws: the people who put you in power can take you out, too. Back in Ukraine, Pora and the other groups that formed the vanguard...
...shui and don't know exactly where your red should be to bring you money, luck or love, never fear: wabi-sabi, the latest Asian-inspired design craze, is here. With its celebration of the imperfect, unpredictable and incomplete, wabi-sabi is a much more forgiving style than its predecessor...
...Taipei. The shy Russian met her future husband, son of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, at a Soviet machinery plant at age 16. She married into the political dynasty in 1935. As First Lady from 1978 to 1988, Chiang avoided the public spotlight and lacked the glamour of her predecessor, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, but won respect for her modest lifestyle and dedication to her four children. Recalled Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, "She had the values of a traditional Chinese woman...