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Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions
Original Source By ADAM LIPTAK President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. But a second, overlapping 5-to-4 majority…
Author: The New York Times
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Vietnam's military geared up for fight against AIDS
Officials from the US Department of Defence provided 30 Vietnamese military doctors and nurses with specialised training in HIV/AIDS testing and counseling in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec. 9. The training was conducted within the framework of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS…
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At last, war veterans have reason to smile
Original Source These developments are a direct result of the work of Atlantic’s grantee, the National Peace Accord Trust who have worked together with the Umkhonto We Sizwe Veterans Association to win the support of the Zuma administration for veterans needs. RAYMOND Fihla steps into Ray’s Butchery,…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)
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Anti-apartheid Veterans Left in the Lurch
BILL CORCORAN in Cape Town The South African government has introduced a Bill that will give pension and healthcare rights to the 56,000 registered veterans of the struggle against apartheid, but critics say the scheme does not go far enough IT IS 25 YEARS since…
Author: The Irish Times
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The United States and the World Since 9/11: Less Safe and Less Free
One result of the Bush Administration’s striking combination of ineptitude and contempt for law and government is a growing shelf, on its way to becoming a library, of books that chronicle and analyze the ways in which constitutional rights and international law have been assaulted…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Exposés on BP Spill and Afghanistan Win Polk Awards
Investigative reports that exposed the devastating environmental and economic impact of the oil spill last year in the Gulf of Mexico and leadership failings in America’s military mission in Afghanistan were among the winners of 13 George Polk Awards for 2010 announced on Monday by Long Island University. Correspondents of…
Author: The New York Times
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Students Spell Out Messages on Immigration
By JULIA PRESTON MIAMI — Dozens of college students lay down on South Beach on Sunday afternoon, but not to sunbathe. Most were immigrants in this country illegally, and their bodies, fully clothed, formed giant letters that spelled out a message for Floridians and one of…
Author: The New York Times
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Troubles past: Northern Ireland conflict remembered
by Stephen Bates As a memorial it may have somewhat lacked the poignancy of a Remembrance Sunday or the sense of devastating loss from the trenches of the first world war, but yesterday, with due ceremony, the longest British military deployment in history – the…
Author: The Guardian (London)
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Suicide on the Brink of Release; Families, Attorneys Push to Hold Guantanamo Officials Liable
by Josh White When Mani al-Utaybi fixed a makeshift noose around his neck and hanged himself in a Guantanamo Bay cell in June 2006, the Saudi Arabian detainee had been close to being transferred to his homeland and freed, his attorney and military officials said.…
Author: The Washington Post
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The Transformer: Chuck Feeney '56 Champions the Pleasure of Giving While Living
Rendering of a portion of the future Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, showing the campus lawn, the first academic building (left) and the co-location buidling. Rendering: Luke Yoo/Morphosis By Emily Sanders Hopkins He is Cornell University’s biggest donor. Chuck Feeney ’56. Image: Fennell Photography…
Author: Ezra: Cornell's Quarterly Magazine