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Judge green-lights Gitmo trial
The Swampby James Oliphant A federal judge Thursday refused to block the war-crimes trial of Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan and it will go forward Monday as scheduled. Hamdan will be the first detainee to go before the Pentagon's revamped military commission.......Tags: Justice and Rights, Justice System, Osama bin Laden, Government, International Court or Tribunal
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Substance: Questions Caroline doesn't have time for
Spin CycleCaroline Kennedy's Senate candidacy seems to be based on her name, her celebrity, and her support among some Democratic powerbrokers and non-Democrat VIPs like Bloomberg. She gives every appearance of considering substance -- where she stands -- beside...Tags: State Budgets, Social Security, Wages and Pensions, Hillary Clinton, Illegal Immigrants
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Substance: Caroline answers some questions
Spin CycleAfter a week spent touching base with New York powerbrokers in her quest for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, Caroline Kennedy today began answering some substantive questions to sketch out where she stands on the issues. In an item yesterday,......Tags: State Budgets, Economic Organization, Social Security, Crimes, Wages and Pensions
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Eartha Kitt versus the LBJs
The Swampby Frank James Say what you will about Eartha Kitt, the American original of a performer who died at 81 on Christmas Day, she certainly knew how to disrupt a White House event. One of the best Kitt stories......Tags: New Jersey, Texas, Government, White House, Crime, Law and Justice
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Opinion: Impeach Bybee?
Spin CycleOne of the problems with Obama's desire to look forward on possible crimes by the Bush administration relating to torture, coercive interrogations, renditions and eavesdropping is that the people responsible don't reside in the past -- some of them......Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Justice System, Social Issues, White House, United States
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Obama vs. GOP: Budget vs. terrorism
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama today is talking about the budget, federal spending and reining in the deficit. He is talking about "paying as you go.'' Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is talking about something else: The......Tags: State Budgets, Justice System, Crimes, Osama bin Laden, Medicare
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Elie Wiesel's story endures, empowers
NEW YORK — A slender, silver-haired gentleman steps onto a nearly bare stage, the instantaneous applause continuing long after he reaches the spare wooden table awaiting him. For a moment, amid the din, he studies the audience — young and...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Hate Crimes, Colleges and Universities, Literature, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Corrections reform never an O'Malley priority
With a straight face, the Maryland governor says the sex-and-drugs scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center, including the alleged corruption of 13 corrections officers, is a "positive achievement." He claims his corrections secretary, Gary Maynard,...
Tags: Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, Blackmail and Extortion, Gang Activity, Government
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Scandal at jail another symptom of war on drugs
Let me start with this: If not for the absurd war on drugs — by far, the nation's longest war — we would not have had so many killings on the streets of Baltimore over the years. The United States leads the world in incarceration. Without the...
Tags: Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, Prisons, Heroin, Jihad
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Riveting 'Emperor' gets some dry revisions ★★
"I don't need a history lesson, Your Excellency," the true-blue American general tells Emperor Hirohito's ex-prime minister when he lectures his inquisitor about the bloody imperialist actions of Great Britain and America, along with Japan, in the new...
Tags: Laurence Olivier, Arts and Culture, Matthew Fox, Movies, Fiction
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2012: From Arab Spring to early winter
Meteorologists know seasons are predictable. In the weather world, spring is always followed by summer. But the political world is different. Spring can proceed to summer, or it can lead to a sudden onset of winter. That was the case this year in the...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Arab Spring, Human Rights Watch, Bashar Assad, The Wall Street Journal
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'Argo' director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture
In the last shot of Ben Affleck's "Argo" — relax, there are no spoilers here — the camera pans slowly along the shelves of toys in a young boy's bedroom. The year is 1980; the film spends most of its time on the true story of how a CIA...
Tags: The Town (movie), Good Will Hunting (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, All the President's Men (movie), Celebrities
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