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...mini-riot erupted just as a United Nations panel monitoring compliance with the U.S.-ratified "Convention Against Torture" called on Washington to close Gitmo. The panel also urged the U.S. to ban interrogation techniques that critics have described as torture and to stop the secret transfer of prisoners to other countries...
...attorney-general race, Los Angeles city attorney Rocky Delgadillo, aired an ad in mid-May accusing Brown of proposing to slash funding for Oakland cops. Although Brown did propose cuts in 2003, the police budget has grown more than 50% since 1999. Brown has pushed the force to transfer officers from desk jobs to street patrols, and he backed a 10 p.m. curfew on some parolees and probationers. The city is trying to raise bails to keep suspects in jail, and cameras have been installed in high-crime areas. Recently the city tested "shot spotter" technology to isolate gunshots using...
...FRANKFURT: With a personal assistant to wait on you until it's time to take off and limousine transfer across the tarmac to your waiting aircraft, Lufthansa's first-class lounge at Frankfurt raises the bar when it comes to service on the ground. Passengers can work in fully equipped individual offices, rest in private suites, kick back in the cigar lounge, watch movies on demand or dine in the gourmet restaurant...
Harvard wants to transfer the Charlesview residents—and their federal subsidies—to a new housing facility a mile away on land currently owned by the University. But Harvard officials believed that old HUD guidelines might bar long-term subsidy transfers, according to Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey...
Congress passed legislation this past November that will allow the long-term transfer of subsidies from “physically obsolete or economically non-viable” housing facilities to new projects...