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...Gonzales's future as the nation's top law enforcement officer is in serious doubt as the scandal surrounding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year reaches into the White House. Republicans, rather than defending Gonzales, are making clear they believe the Administration needs to be much clearer about the role of the White House in firing the eight federal prosecutors. Speaking on a Sunday television talk show, John Cornyn, perhaps the Administration's strongest defender in the Senate, declared, "I've told the Attorney General that I think this has been mishandled, that by giving inaccurate information...
...lawsuit, while the AIPAC case is a criminal prosecution. As Aziz Huq of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU law school says, "There's a difference between denying someone a remedy based on secrecy and subjecting someone to criminal sanction based on secret evidence." The latter is more serious. But the public's right to know what goes on in court is still the same. You would think that, at least for the sake of consistency, the Bush Administration would find a way for El-Masri's case to go forward with secret evidence or, alternatively, drop the AIPAC...
...border, but at its source in the dusty recesses of impoverished rural Mexico. The nation's massive labor migration - what President Felipe Calderon calls his country's "open wound" - was a top agenda item during his recent meeting with President George W. Bush. But if Bush was serious when he said "the working poor of Latin America need change," then many feel the U.S. should start helping burgs like Santa Cruz build the kind of small enterprises that can jump-start more viable local economies. "There is too much entrepreneurial ambition in this country that never sees one peso...
...This column started about five years ago when comix and graphic novels were just barely beginning to get serious attention from the mainstream press. My goal was to introduce the more general readership of Time's website to the unique, mostly unheralded possibilities of storytelling that I knew the comix form had to offer. My philosophy for the column has always been to offer supportive reviews of books that I found interesting. There seemed little point in telling a comix-averse audience not to read comix. The perfect TIME.comix review would be a brief guide to how to appreciate...
...every year and every year we are detained and taken back. But this year was different," she says. "The policemen told us we may get three or five years in prison." Yang is well aware the chances of success are minimal and the danger of imprisonment or worse is serious. But like thousands of fellow petitioners, she says she has no choice. "Of course we still come. Our children are innocent. How could we not come...