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Every time the Bush Administration is accused of torture, the response from the White House is immediate and unequivocal. When the New York Times reported on its front page Thursday that the Justice Department had issued a secret legal opinion in 2005 approving a combination of particularly tough interrogation tactics, White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, "The bottom line is that we do not use torture." When Congress and the White House battled over detainee rights in 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney argued that techniques like simulated drowning didn't amount to torture. And last August, after the New Yorker...
...simply abstained from voting. With other opposition parties boycotting, that meant that Musharraf received all but two or three of the votes cast, lending legitimacy to his election. In the meantime, Bhutto will get blanket amnesty for corruption charges leveled against her and her husband, Asif Zadari. On Thursday Musharraf told Dawn TV that while he had not forgotten about the corruption charges, "There is a greater need to bring together forces that believe in moderation to take on religious extremism," and that "there is no harm in engaging [Bhutto] in the dialogue process...
...White House has made no statement regarding the reconciliation accord announced on Thursday, other than to repeat its call for "free and fair" elections and that the deal is a "matter for the Pakistanis to decide," according to spokesman Gordon Johndroe...
...always suave former Rome mayor made the rounds on Italian national television Thursday night with the first four pieces the Getty has already returned, including a prized 5th century B.C. vase attributed to the Greek painter Euphronios. In an interview this week with TIME, Rutelli said the deal with the Getty - which follows smaller-scale agreements with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts - marks a watershed in the international effort to force otherwise upstanding cultural institutions to turn over works with a nefarious past. "We're proud... of the ethical value...
...spend time with friends." He said he was grateful to the city fathers for being understanding of his troubles, and for deciding to reach out to him despite the criticism he faced in many quarters. "In those difficult days, it was a great help for me," he said Thursday. "I felt cornered and then I got this signal of tolerance and openness from my home town...