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...listener and Buckingham can get lost in the waterfall of notes flowing from the strings, until finally the whisper of the artist’s voice fades out over muted tones. But “Gift of Screws,” unlike Nick Drake’s similar-sounding corpus, is not all moody sobriety; it’s also fun. In fact, the album is actually best when it’s in more lighthearted spirits, and Buckingham’s former pop star is allowed to shine. “A hundred years underground / Had to swim across...
...When the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 last June that Guantánamo's remaining prisoners are entitled to habeas corpus hearings to justify their detention, Guantánamo became an election issue. McCain called the ruling "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country", although he later said it was not as bad as he had first described. Obama, who has called for terror suspects to face trial in the U.S. justice system rather than in military tribunals, welcomed the ruling. Since then government attorneys have presented few habeas corpus documents to justify holding the suspects...
...When I was a little kid, we and the Soviets had nukes aimed at each other," Kennedy said. "But we didn't torture people, we didn't suspend habeas corpus, and we didn't bug 300,000 people...
...widely publicized. More than 30 parents visited the police station seeking information about missing children, but overworked police restricted their investigation to five obvious cases. They soon encountered problems as they sought DNA samples from children thousands of miles away in different jurisdictions. Eventually, a writ of habeas corpus filed by human-rights lawyers brought action from the High Court in Chennai, which ordered the country's Central Bureau of Intelligence (CBI) to take up the case...
...result of flip-flopping or reemphasizing moderate positions, the Supreme Court decisions have focused attention again on the role of the court in the campaign season. McCain himself is vulnerable to charges of using the Supreme Court for political purposes. Earlier this month, when the court granted habeas corpus rights to accused terrorist prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, McCain attacked the opinion in particularly harsh language, though advisers say closing the prison there is high on his list of actions to rehabilitate America's image around the world...