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That may be true. What is less convincing is the rationale that the approach will turn up something useful. Many of the subjects probably won't talk, particularly since the Immigration and Naturalization Service sent around a memo last week saying any interviewees in the country illegally can be held...
The Justice Department has tried to justify the intrusion as necessary to prevent terrorists from using their counsel, in the tradition of mob consiglieres and drug-kingpin lawyers, to convey information to co-conspirators on the outside. At last week's Senate hearing, Chertoff quoted from an al-Qaeda terrorism...
Responding to the criticism and police refusals, Ashcroft offered last Thursday to give three-year S visas (known by immigration lawyers as "snitch visas") as a reward for useful information provided by interviewees or anybody else, here or abroad, who knows anything about terrorist plots. At least he knows that...
Tad speaks lovingly of the “flights of fancy” scribbled across the blackboards of 310, and shuns any suggestions that math is a waste of time and chalk. “Why is anyone doing anything instead of going to Africa and feeding the poor??...
Unrealistic, you cry. Utterly pointless, a waste of precious response-paper writing time. But why? Why, when we farm ourselves out to Habitats for Humanity and soup kitchens in Roxbury, can we not turn the philosophy of community service onto our own, where it is so conspicuously absent? Only in...