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...Germany this week against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Administration officials for alleged war crimes in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo has little chance of making it into court. That's according to Andreas Zimmerman, a professor of international criminal law at Kiel University who helped negotiate the Rome Treaty that founded the International Criminal Court and who drafted the German law under which Rumsfeld has been charged. Under German law, the decision over whether to try the case will rest with the federal prosecutor rather than with a judge. Federal prosecutors, of course, are subject to the wishes...
Time Out magazine is the go-to publication for weekly event listings and reviews in cities around the world. The new Time Out Shortlist guidebooks have expanded on that concept to create pocket-size guides to hip happenings in Paris, New York City, Prague, Barcelona and Rome. Written by local journalists, the books offer up a plugged-in guide to the best clubs, pubs, hotels, shops and events of the moment. While not as fresh as a weekly magazine, the guides will be revised annually to stay up-to-date with the fashions and venues in each city they cover...
...alum and things.” What things, exactly? FM found its answer in a large tent in the middle of the Village, which was pimped out with a make-shift bar, an artificial fireplace, and a plasma screen announcing the day’s races. As Judah H. Rome said, “this is probably the only place on the course [where] you can drink without feeling bothered by the police.” Indeed, not everyone grasped the “Reunion” in Reunion Village. “I haven’t seen...
...associate professor with Northwestern University's Integrated Marketing Communications program in Evanston, Ill., is not too worried. "We don't want to be buying ourselves to death here, but I think we are a long way from that," he says. "I don't think this is the burning of Rome...
...organized crime syndicate, he's keeping a low profile under 24-hour guard. Umberto Eco has compared the situation to the Islamic fatwa against Salman Rushdie, but the mob's violent persecution of muckrakers is, in fact, a particularly Italian legacy. "You need journalists," says Giovanni De Mauro, a Rome magazine editor whose journalist uncle was killed by the mob. "But then the battle must be waged by politicians and law enforcement." One day, they might help get Saviano back on his Vespa...