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...Justice Department is considering other ways to get around due-process requirements. Capitol Hill sources tell TIME that the department's Office of Legal Counsel is looking into the possibility of setting up a military court to try terrorism suspects who wind up being charged, thus enabling prosecutors to avoid many of the niceties of the regular court system. In 1942 the Supreme Court allowed an American military commission to try eight Germans who had landed by submarine in Florida and New York with plans of sabotage. The men were found guilty and six of them were executed...
...maybe the greatest, that I know of among performers." But Hough begs to differ, at least a little bit: "If that means I have a desire to understand music from the mind as well as from the heart, then I'm happy with the term, but I can't avoid the suspicion that many of the greatest composers might not comfortably be described as 'intellectuals.' There's always a danger that the act of analysis will tarnish the act of wonder...
Last week the American Pain Federation, a coalition of medical and patient groups, shot off a letter to the DEA demanding that field agents avoid investigations that could "inhibit" doctors from prescribing opiates such as morphine. Though Oregon's is the only state law that allows prescriptions of lethal medicine for terminally ill patients (there have been 70 assisted suicides in four years), 22 states have passed laws to encourage aggressive treatment of intractable pain. "Knowing I could choose when and how to die has given me peace," says Barbara Oskamp, 70, a Portland retiree who suffers from a brain...
...Hints coming out of Afghanistan and the Pentagon suggested that bin Laden was desperately trying to avoid his fate. He burrowed into the country's most remote terrain, sheltered by a small band of bodyguards willing to die in his defense. Pakistani intelligence sources told Time that al-Qaeda survivors were likely to lodge themselves in narrow canyons among the summits, near dried riverbeds shielded from American pilots by boulders and shadows. Some U.S. officials fretted that bin Laden might fake his death...
...fighters may be preparing to begin a new phase of the war, one in which they could do what they once did best: battle a more powerful foreign force from redoubts in the mountains, where tanks can't go and helicopters crash. The surviving Taliban could still withdraw to avoid the hellfire of American strikes and then spring ambushes on towns and villages below. "They can defect, change their mind and go back," Rumsfeld said. "It is not possible to answer the question as to the circumstance of the Taliban." But their divisions are scattered, their hard-core fighters...