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...military tribunals of terror suspects at Guantánamo suffered a serious legal setback this week - this time, not at the hands of any civilian judges but by the ruling of one of the military's own jurists. Navy Judge Captain Keith Allred, hearing the first U.S. military commission trial since World War II, tossed out statements by Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, because he believes they were obtained under "highly coercive" conditions. That doesn't bode well for future tribunals in cases where U.S. interrogators used even harsher techniques - such as the waterboarding used on confessed...
...there is," says Joshua Dratel, a New York City lawyer who represented terror suspect David Hicks during the Australian's stay at Guantánamo. "For the high-value detainees, there's an acknowledgement that a lot more [was done] to them in the black sites - waterboarding and other serious forms of abuse - and you really have to wonder if anything said under those conditions can be [considered] reliable and fair [evidence...
...women carry the art form, providing its focus as well as much of its mystery. The appearance of a new, genuine ballerina is one of the exciting events in the theater. Of course she does not materialize overnight. Years of steely determination and self-denial precede the epiphany, and serious dance fans have been following her every step. But the time comes when the image is complete; the name itself takes on magic and exudes the perfume of the theater. With homegrown stars like Cynthia Gregory and Gelsey Kirkland, Americans have long since stopped regarding ballerinas as imports. But this...
...G.O.P. presidential politics. By coincidence, the three-day right-to-life meeting took place only five blocks away from a hotel that was host to the annual convention of the National Organization for Women, one of the most vocal advocates of free choice. The two groups avoided any serious confrontations. The social agenda of the New Right has considerable clout within the G.O.P., and the right-to-life movement's passionate activists carry far more weight in the party's nomination struggle than their numbers would indicate. So the main Republican presidential hopefuls were already pledging their antiabortion allegiance...
...informal one the Soviets made last month that sought to set limits on America's SDI program through maintaining continued adherence to the ABM treaty. In making their offer, the Soviets have done precisely what U.S. officials have been wanting them to do for months: quietly present a serious plan that contains points of flexibility and possible concessions. "In the past few days," said Nitze at the TIME conference, "there have been a number of indications that the Soviets may be moving to a more flexible position than anything that they have exhibited during the long four rounds of negotiations...