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...Such moments of collapse, when the writer realizes what he cannot do-and what he has to do, as a citizen-are the center of the roaming anthropologist's new collection of essays, Incendiary Circumstances. The title comes from a piece in which Ghosh, sitting at his desk in Delhi, working on his first novel, in 1984, suddenly sees the tranquil world around him go up in flames in the wake of Indira Gandhi's assassination. Hours before, he was just another student and aspiring author, hovering over his notebook in a part of Delhi called Defence Colony; overnight...
...press conference last month after the NSA program came to light, Gonzales cited last year's Supreme Court ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld as another implicit sanction of the presidential power to okay wiretaps. In that decision, the Justices upheld the detention, without charges, of U.S. citizen Yaser Esam Hamdi, whose designation as an enemy combatant was challenged by his lawyers. The court ruled that his detention was lawful because the "necessary force" provisions of the Sept. 14 resolution gave the President the power to engage in all "fundamental incidents" of war. "Even though signals intelligence is not mentioned...
...weeks ago, in a case involving Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to detonate a dirty bomb in an American city, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Michael Luttig refused to go along with the government's plan to transfer Padilla from a military brig to civilian custody. Originally, the Bush Administration named Padilla an enemy combatant, prompting his lawyers to challenge that designation. Just as the Supreme Court prepared to review the case, a federal grand jury indicted Padilla in a Miami court on charges of conspiring to carry out attacks abroad. (In the new indictment...
...Britney & Kevin: Chaotic (UPN). Not that I expected the story of the celebrity horror-pair's courtship to be good, but I deeply hoped it would be so-bad-it's-good. Instead, it was a tedious home movie that made Crossroads look like Citizen Kane, and Nick and Jessica look like the Curies...
...tudents come to university primarily to learn, not to become healthy eaters,” the minutes read. “Chairs maintain that it is our duty to instruct students what it means to be an educated citizen...