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...Local elections have been postponed indefinitely, hampering the functioning of government for the nearly 80 percent of Haitians who live outside of a handful of cities. And the absence of a majority party in the legislature forces Préval to seek consensus among a wide variety of parties on major appointments...
There are many avenues the government may take legally, if the NSA comes across a call pattern that warrants further investigation within the U.S. If the NSA wants to wiretap domestic calls, the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires it or the FBI to seek a special court warrant. The FISA court received 10,617 such applications from 1995 to 2004 and approved all but four of them. And under the Patriot Act, if the FBI certifies that it has grounds, it may also collect more information, such as the customer's name, address and billing information. Last year...
...other benefits, the officers “make good money.”‘NO MATTER WHAT...10 PERCENT ARE BAD’The department aims to dispel the belief that officers have a poor bedside manner, and many of the newcomers say they seek to rise above this.Jesse J. Snell of Blackstone, Mass., calls his new job a “noble profession.”“No matter what you’re doing, 10 percent are bad,” he says about every profession, adding that as a direct reflection...
...force. In fact, libertarians can hold any personal moral view without believing that their stance should be forced upon others. Libertarians can support unions, or workers’ collectives, or a stringent set of religious beliefs, and they can hope that others think the same way, but they seek to persuade, never to coerce...
...that would threaten sanctions if Iran fails to halt enrichment. The meeting failed to achieve agreement, as China and Russia remained firmly opposed to a resolution even threatening sanctions. Moscow and Beijing are urging both sides to take more steps to cool the atmosphere of confrontation and seek a diplomatic compromise. But the prime target for a new diplomatic push from Iran, however, may be the U.S. allies in Europe, led by Germany - and backed by a growing number of voices in the U.S. political establishment - urging the Bush administration to hold direct talks with Iran as part...