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...canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying on its side in a ditch. "When we'd finished," he said, "all the Arabs were dead." So were three Afghans and one American. Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Harriman, 34, based in Fort Bragg, N.C., who had been in the cabin of Sabur's truck, was flown to Bagram, where he received last rites...
...inaction. Police forced Li Lan to bury her daughter, and that's when she became an activist partner of Liang. She repeatedly went to police headquarters to demand greater punishment for her daughter's killers; for that, she was detained for "refusing to accept ideological education," according to the warrant. She was arrested again for unfurling a banner in Tiananmen Square denouncing county officials. In the months that followed, she collected signatures and fingerprints from a thousand villagers demanding the police chief's impeachment. "People kept asking me to represent them," she says while thumbing the petition in her sparsely...
...Arrest, he says, is not an option because the cocaine dealers - the vast majority of them in this part of town are West African asylum seekers - are "untouchable." For a start, drug use is not illegal in Switzerland, and possession of .2 grams or less of cocaine doesn't warrant arrest. Also, Swiss law treats seriously its obligations not to repatriate asylum seekers who claim their lives would be in danger in their home countries. "When these guys get here, they already know how the system works and how to pull the strings," agent Martin says. Even when police...
...strategy has been so successful - driving theft down by 50% - that in mid-February Rotterdam police adopted it as well. But not everybody is happy. Civil libertarians question the legality of police obtaining cell-phone numbers without a warrant. And while sending SMS messages is free for the Dutch police, it is not free for Dutch service providers - some of which have declined to participate...
There is, of course, no way to know whether some situation might arise in the future vital enough to warrant the takeover of another Harvard building. It would be more than presumptuous to say that a coercive protest at Harvard could never be justified. But as protestors who fought against Jim Crow laws in the South will attest, justified coercive actions have serious consequences. Students who take over buildings have no reason to expect the University to smile benignly; they must be willing to face the possibility of disciplinary action, and even suspension...