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...world about his secret baby, the CIA's clandestine prisons. (Suri, naturally, got higher ratings.) Compelled by the Supreme Court to find a legal way of trying detainees and by dismal polls and midterms to argue for his antiterrorism strategy, the President whose Administration once defied the press to claim the prisons existed now gamely said they had--and here are the baby pictures, Katie...
...Khatami: I don't claim that there have never been human rights violations in Iran, but I [also] believe human rights are being violated everywhere, with different names. I believe the violation of rights of prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib is not compatible - everybody should condemn the violation of human rights, everywhere. Double standards will not help...
...populate the fighting forces. Today residents at Anaka, although predominantly Christian, are skeptical that the cause of their roof fires could be anything but tangu - supernatural. While scientists might look for an explanation in the heat build-up from oxidation in the huts' thick straw thatch, camp residents claim other things have caught fire, too: articles of clothing, for example, and in some cases even children...
...that the only way to appease the spirits is to find the most beautiful girl in Anaka and sacrifice her. Joseph Kony, the (lra) leader, who was indicted last year by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has himself secured loyalty from troops by claiming the ability to channel spirits. Former rebels describe him as performing feats of magic: causing stones dipped in oil to explode when he throws them or daubing a special oil on the feet of young soldiers to help them march dozens of miles on empty stomachs. And now that peace...
...Facebook set may not like it, but courts are mostly giving the O.K. to corporate spying. "I haven't seen one case where an employee has won on a right-of-privacy claim," says Anthony Oncidi, head of the labor and employment department at law firm Proskauer Rose. Companies can ward off privacy claims if they have informed staff members they're being monitored, even if only in a single sentence in a rarely read handbook. Even when there is no advance notice, workplace-privacy claims have proved hard to win. Only two states (Connecticut and Delaware) require bosses...