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Unfortunately, however, my argument reaches a lukewarm crescendo: I don’t know how we solve this ‘problem.’ Surely the answer is not to become technophobes and retreat into caves. It seems unlikely (though not unimaginable) that the courts would reinterpret the guidelines for some kinds of subpoenas and make them more challenging to acquire, given how much functional precedent lies behind the current procedures. For now, then, the best policy might well be one of prudence. It pays to be aware of just how vulnerable the details of our private lives could...
...January, will be used as a pretext for withdrawing, even though the insurgency will still be raging and civil war will result. While some of what Novak's sources have told him sounds farfetched, there's a soundness to his overall point about an early departure, and a retreat from the neo-conservative dream about remaking the Middle East to American specification...
...other coalition countries to pull their forces out of Iraq. Zapatero constantly stresses that his government's resolve against terrorism is as firm as ever. The Socialists have faced charges at home and abroad that they only won the election because the bomb attacks scared the country into a retreat. Zapatero told TIME he "respects the views" of those who believe "that when the Spanish people voted for me they voted out of fear," but he contends such views reveal "a lack of knowledge of the Spanish people. This is the country that has suffered most from terrorism, with...
Consumer goods have their merits, but the hardest-to-get luxuries have no price tag. Privacy. Sanctuary. Retreat. A feeling of having been cleansed. For such pleasures as these, there are only two places to go: monasteries and bathrooms. Most people opt for the latter...
...return U.S. forces would withdraw from the city, turning over responsibility for keeping the peace to Iraqi police. But uncertainty lingered over how long the truce would last. The upstart cleric, whose Mahdi Army was allowed to withdraw intact, has reneged on agreements before, and this latest tactical retreat, after hundreds of his men had been killed, left him and his surviving militiamen free to fight another day. The interim Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had repeatedly vowed to crush al-Sadr's illegal army but quickly acceded to a plan that would spare the shrine from...