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...similar suit was brought in Germany in 2005 and dismissed after prosecutors ruled that the U.S. still had jurisdiction and was pursuing those responsible. The civil rights activists who brought the Rumsfeld suit claim that the basis for that decision is no longer valid, since only lower-level figures have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. The German federal prosecutor Monika Harms will likely make her decision officially early in the new year. "At best it's an uphill struggle," said Zimmermann...
...have 120 pictures from your 5-megapixel camera, the easiest way to upload photos is with the blatantly named "Easy Upload for Internet Explorer." I doubt it's a case of collusion-there are other examples of this kind of bias around the Web-but it is a valid reason to keep IE7 handy, even if you plan on using Firefox 2 most of the time...
Some argue that these methods are completely valid, claiming that they “draw attention” to an argument. Yet in doing so they draw more attention to themselves than to the actual issues. Students at Harvard who are passionate enough about an issue to stage a protest would be more effective if they focused their efforts on the intellectual merit of their arguments. Though inducing others to join a cause through rallies and protests may seem the revolutionary, “cool” thing to do—a throwback to the ’60s?...
...Folding Newspapers Michael Kinsley's piece on the apparently dismal future of the newspaper industry made some valid arguments about the value of traditional journalism [Oct. 2]. Kinsley's attempt, however, to place most of the blame for newspapers' decreasing readership on the Internet and bloggers-whom he characterized as "some acned 12-year-old in his parents' basement recycling rumors"-is simply ridiculous. Kinsley's hyperbolic criticism confirms many of the reasons for the general distrust of mainstream media. Kristine F. Collins Providence, Rhode Island...
...same crew that had turned Sprints into a lopsided race for second two weeks earlier. The Big Red had the advantage of racing in a longer boat, and the IRA officials had the unenviable task of awarding one gold medal into a race in which there were two valid champions.“I know we got the short end of the stick, but that race at IRAs last year—I’ve never been a part of an effort that intense and that focused,” says senior coxswain Mark Adomanis, who is also...