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Condoleezza Rice's visit to Europe this week was overshadowed by criticism of the CIA's alleged use of clandestine flights and bases in Europe to transport and imprison terror suspects. But there was one welcome respite: When the Secretary of State touched down in the small former communist state of Romania to announce that the U.S. would be opening four new military bases there, she was greeted with open arms. "The acceptance by the Romanian people of the American military presence is the most precious thing to have happened in the relations between our two states," the pugnacious Prime...
...Rice's stop in Romania, however, failed to dispel criticism from other quarters. She is under fire over a series of reports that the CIA established clandestine bases on European soil to imprison suspected terrorists for questioning, and transported those detainees through European airports. Rice's declaration-in what some see as a departure for U.S. policy-that U.S. treaty obligations prohibiting cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment extended to U.S. personnel "wherever they are" helped quiet some of those concerns. So, too, did her allowance, unusual for a Bush Administration member, that the U.S. may have made mistakes...
...There should be no short cuts in the administration of justice. It is dangerous and difficult work to infiltrate the Mafia, or a Triad, but dedicated and clever officers still try. Should police who cannot gather enough evidence to secure a conviction be able to imprison people without charge? It does not take much knowledge of human nature - nor does it impugn the integrity of the police - to guess whether their evidence-gathering efforts will thereafter be intensified or relaxed. And relaxation of vigilance may prove a deeper danger...
...authorities worried about the possibility of more violence, Higgins barred the gates. The ruling means that prisoners will stay longer in county jails, which already hold 3,500 inmates convicted of state-level crimes. State Attorney General W.J. Michael Cody has asked the judge to allow the state to imprison murderers, rapists and armed robbers. Prison authorities are hoping that the legislature will approve emergency measures to allow earlier releases for well-behaved prisoners. CALIFORNIA Win Some, Lose Some...
...times, the book suffers from relentless earnestness and somewhat hackneyed descriptions. But Hosseini has a remarkable ability to imprison the reader in horrific, shatteringly immediate scenes?not least the incident in which Hassan is violated. The result is a sickening sensation of complicity. Like Amir, the reader watches the suffering and does nothing. Hosseini turns that shared guilt into a subtle condemnation of a world that watched the rape of Afghanistan?first by the Soviets, then by regional warlords and the Taliban. True evil, he suggests, comes when good people allow bad things to happen...