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...Still more disturbing were Al Juhaini's past ties with the authorities, suggesting that residual sympathy for al-Qaeda may exist among elements of the Saudi regime. Al Juhaini, 28, was a former member of the Saudi religious police, the ubiquitous squad that enforces public dress codes and other strict Islamic rules. He was fired in 2003 because "he was overzealous and got physical with people," a government source told TIME. But last April, Saudi authorities missed a chance to curb his violent activities after they detained him for suspected subversion, then released him into the custody of family elders...
...year-old Christian Legal Society, which was founded to foster Christian fellowship in the law profession, permit only gays who have repented their sins to join. Because of this rule, college officials denied registration to several of the association's 80 chapters, stripping them of funding. "We have a strict policy against discrimination that won't be compromised," says Fran Marsh, spokeswoman for the University of California's Hastings School of Law in San Francisco, where students belonging to the society filed a suit last month claiming that their constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and religion were being violated...
...Sarbanes-Oxley Act - the 2002 law that introduced tough new rules on how public firms report their numbers - is adding to the burden of compliance. Jones claims at least a quarter of his 72 British members listed in the U.S. have said privately: "We've had enough" of strict U.S. rules. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported that a majority of Germany's 13 U.S.-listed firms wanted out of the hassle and cost of U.S. regulation. After meeting with German employer groups last week, Jones says British and German firms will be pushing U.S. regulators to make it easier...
...vacation. They were at Spring Creek because it's where their son John had lived since the morning in June when the Carbens paid two handcuff-brandishing escorts to take their 17-year-old there. Despite its bucolic appearance, Spring Creek is a specialty boarding school that uses strict behavior-modification techniques to rehabilitate troubled kids. John, whose parents made the agonizing decision to commit him to the school after he punched his mother, had made progress since his arrival. And so, like the roughly 120 other parents who gathered last month in a barnlike room near the academy...
...enemy combatants who had no legal rights under the Geneva Convention, parts of which the memo derided as "quaint." Gonzales contended that "the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians ... renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on the questioning of enemy prisoners...