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...here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion." Since then, the U.S. government appears to have quietly defined down torture so that only the most horrific practices are barred. Legal gray zones such as Guantánamo and the network of "black sites" were set up to avoid the scrutiny of U.S. courts. Some of this can be explained as a natural reaction to the trauma following the attacks on New York City and Washington. But with Cheney himself lobbying to exclude the cia from future restrictions on torture abroad, excuses about the special nature of that time...
...stole his identity and went on a shopping spree with his credit card info. It was one of his first encounters with the wilds of the Internet. Kramer, 43, whose background is in marketing, saw opportunity in the crime. "The initial idea was to set up voice authentication to avoid that kind of thing again," he says...
INFLATION AND INTEREST RATES. Gold hit $500 per oz. last week, the first time it's reached that mark since 1987, a sign that inflation may be heating up. To avoid that, the Federal Reserve has been boosting rates for two years, making all borrowed money more expensive. That troubles Jodi Legge, 41, of Hudson, Wis., who expects that her home-equity debt is going to cost more every month. So she and her husband Ed are sticking to the holiday budget they agreed on. Still, "we haven't cut back," Jodi says, although she's redirecting money to more...
...Ballard's testimony won't necessarily be able to turn back the clock. While Tice firmly protested his innocence through two separate trials, both Williams and Dick ended up pleading guilty. The reason may be understandable in retrospect--both their lawyers told them to stick to the story to avoid the death penalty--but the fact that they affirmed their confessions doesn't help their case. No wonder prosecutor D.J. Hansen, who put the men behind bars, says there is nothing new in the petition that wasn't tested in the normal judicial process. "Justice was done," he says...
...snippets and purchase options are concerned, these ought to be considered necessary in any case, if the project is to avoid slipping completely into the realm of the positively piratical. They fail to account, however, for a truly fundamental precondition for Google’s distributing printed material in this way—that, in the default situation, control remains firmly in the hands of the authors and publishers who own the copyrights of the books in question. Google’s opt-out proposition takes that basic control away from those to whom it rightfully belongs, compromising...