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...begin with, there is concern that judicial authorization would make torture a common practice as investigators turn away from other techniques. That worry seems especially plausible if judges don’t turn down requests for “torture warrants” frequently enough to discourage agents from resorting to torture except as a last resort. And even when judges do say no, there’s no guarantee that agents won’t torture illegally (as Dershowitz accuses them of doing currently...
...Wilhelm Doppelganger has been ski-jumping all his life. The 27-year old Austrian, the son of a world champion speed skater and an Olympic gold-medal-winning luger, grew up in the ski-resort town of Blaadfrey. At age four he was sent to private school in the Alps and then to the Olympic Training Center in Vienna. By 15 he was traveling the Grand Prix World Circuit...
Without knowing what Harvard would build without an underground passageway, city residents—and even city councillors—have had to resort to speculation. Perhaps the University would redesign the buildings and make them taller to compensate for having less space underground, some speculate. Others say they still hope Harvard will abandon the project altogether...
...Like the Israeli reserve officers, the Palestinian peaceniks may be something of a fringe group right now - although their perspective probably has a lot more support among the leadership on their side of the divide than that of their Israeli counterparts. And even if the PA was tempted to resort now to the tactics of Mahatma Gandhi, the men in charge of the militias and terrorist cells on the ground who actually carry out the suicide bombings and guerrilla attacks have a way of imposing their own ideas...
...summiteers cut their deliberations to two days (26-27) in the remote and exclusive resort of Kana-naskis in the Canadian Rockies - enough to stymie the protesters...