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BUSH'S BILL seeks to set the rules for future treatment of detainees in the war on terrorism. Arguing that some of the language of the Geneva Conventions regulating the treatment of prisoners of war is too vague--like the prohibition in Common Article 3 against "outrages upon personal dignity"--Bush would remove Geneva references from the U.S.'s 1996 War Crimes Act, which provides penalties up to death for abuse of detainees. Instead, he would identify nine violations: torture, cruel or inhuman treatment, performing biological experiments, murder, mutilation or maiming, intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury, rape, sexual...
...also due to its sequestered location on Tolo Harbour - within sight of rocky islets and earshot of lapping waves - as well as the superb cooking of Gary Cheuk, who presents a changing degustation menu nightly. Then there's the sheer delight of stumbling, with your loved one, upon such a gorgeous little place in the dark: if romance isn't kindled amid the crystal and candlelight of this country hideaway, it may never...
...communicate with some privacy, authoritarian regimes have still found ways to censor websites, to monitor e-mail and to track down and jail online offenders. Still, in this game of electronic cat and mouse, the methods for evading roadblocks are evolving, and in Vietnam pro-democracy activists have hit upon a useful tool: Internet telephony, or Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP...
...snared dissident was Truong Quoc Huy, a 25-year-old mobile-phone repairman who says he first got interested in politics two years ago after stumbling upon a forum in which exiles and dissidents chatted using PalTalk. Huy began voicing his own opinions about corruption and democracy. But he says he was arrested last year and jailed for nine months, along with his brother Truong Quoc Tuan and a friend, after Huy revealed their identities to PalTalk members they thought were fellow democracy advocates; they now believe one may have been a police infiltrator. Within days of his release...
...Yale without the hookups. Or alcohol. Or meaning. It was also like a large family reunion—noisy and irregular—with everyone smiling on for dear life. The matriarch had coerced everyone into attending, and that is why they did, secure in the return to routine upon its happy end. Ultimately, the carnival was probably a distraction from building a real community at Harvard. It was sporadic instead of regular, forced instead of voluntary and short instead of long-lasting, to the point that its meager achievements obscured its ambitious aims. If for me, the carnival wasn?...