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...Jihad Islamia (based in Bangladesh) and Students Islamic Movement of India, a group that has been banned. This summer, a new group emerged, Indian Mujahideen, claiming responsibility via e-mail for several attacks and stressing that their members and grievances were homegrown. A group called Deccan Mujahideen, previously unknown, has also sent an e-mail claiming responsibility for Wednesday's attacks. That claim cannot yet be confirmed...
...Order would have to be sweeping and reach deep into the government's darker recesses. That's because the Bush team has written so many legal memos okaying various techniques for interrogators working at a wide range of agencies. Some of those opinions have been disclosed publicly, but an unknown number remain classified. Obama will need to direct his Attorney General to issue new legal guidance that supersedes all those legal opinions, seen or unseen, if he hopes to prevent a return to such practices in the future. Former federal prosecutor and onetime trial judge Eric Holder, Obama's pick...
...experience and competency in exchange for political maneuvering. As Obama shifts the focus back to ability, he will have no choice but to turn to those who are familiar with Washington politics; this inevitability is no cause for harsh criticism. Just as Obama will not appoint incompetent or unknown people to his team, he also will not appoint insiders solely due to their status or popularity. Analogous to the thoroughness of his campaign, the vetting process to join Obama’s team is meticulous. Top candidates—including potential Secretary of State and current Senator Hillary Clinton?...
...will divorce her husband Bernie Ecclestone, the former chief of Formula One racing, whose fortune is estimated at $3.6 billion. Lawyers are already predicting that Slavica could walk away with half of her husband's fortune, making it the highest settlement to a spouse in legal history. It's unknown whether they signed a prenuptial agreement...
...Orsay and the Museum of Modern Art. When Zollner meets him, all Kaminski lacks is a biography that will solidify his reputation as an artist with lasting significance, hopefully disproving Kaminski’s own fatalistic prediction that “first one’s unknown, then one’s famous, then one’s forgotten again.” Zollner serves as the artist’s more dynamic, optimistic foil. He, in all his self-absorbed vanity, is a character you will love to hate, for beneath his flaws lies a self-consciousness with which...