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This principle is not some carte blanche for nations to prosecute foreign leaders. It applies specifically and only to cases like Pinochet's, when somebody who has committed truly terrible crimes on a massive scale would otherwise avoid the reach of justice. This principle has been accepted and applied by prestigious national courts in the past. The Israeli supreme court did so when it tried the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman. American courts also accepted the principle when they extradited John Demjanjuk to Israel for trial as a Nazi war criminal...
...early Tuesday, killing at least 1,700 people ? although the death toll is rising by the hour ? and reminded both Taiwan and Beijing of forces far more powerful than the enmity that divides them. The second worst quake to hit the island this century measured 7.6 on the Richter scale ? the recent disastrous tremor in Turkey was 7.4 ? and struck hardest in the central Nantou and Taichung counties, although a hotel and other buildings were destroyed in the capital, Taipei...
...photograph of Emine Kacar, trapped in the ruins of her building [WORLD, Aug. 30]. I wept for this woman, her children dead, a child's small body lying beneath her own. I had read the headlines and kept pace with the daily death-toll updates, but the scale of human suffering did not touch me until I connected with this victim. You say in your article that "it is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home." It certainly came home to me, and I ache for the loss. VICKI ERICKSON Raleigh...
...Institutions change on a much longer time scale than the news cycle," he said. "It's clear they changed the weightings and could change them again next year...
Acceptance at Harvard Medical School tipped the scale for Puck. Though she was still undecided on a career, she says her professors at the College left a favorable impression...