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...would like to congratulate Philippine-American Major General Antonio Taguba for his report to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. For Taguba to issue the well-documented exposé of the abuses and torture-which implicated both the American military and its political leadership-took the kind of courage required for service on a war's front lines. This is democracy in action. Politicians may be divided on the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war, but Taguba deserves unanimous praise. For him, it was an act of conscience. Joel R. Hinlo Brigadier General...
...prompted sweeping law-enforcement reforms, by a 12-member jury; in Arlon, Belgium. Paroled after serving time for rape in the '80s, Dutroux was found guilty of imprisoning six young girls in an underground chamber, murdering two of them and killing an accomplice. Dutroux, who faces life in prison, claimed to be the scapegoat for a pedophile ring with ties to the rich and powerful but failed to convince the jury...
...others as well. In a country in which Christian authors write diet books (to help you get Slim for Him) and addiction books (Holy Smokes! Inspirational Help for Kicking the Habit), Bush won broad support when he argued--to the dismay of church/state watchdogs--that drug-treatment and prison-fellowship programs that have good track records should not be denied federal funds simply because their methods are faith-based...
SPARED THE DEATH PENALTY. TERRY NICHOLS, 49, convicted of 161 state murder counts in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people; in McAlester, Okla. Jurors failed to agree on a punishment, thereby barring use of the death penalty. A judge is expected to sentence Nichols to life in prison without parole...
...York City. As a professor at the City College of New York, he was fired in 1941 with almost 50 other communist sympathizers and convicted of perjury after telling a panel he knew of only three communists at the school, two of them dead. After serving 13 months in prison, he became an editor at Jewish Currents, a left-leaning magazine for secular Jews, for four decades...