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...lights come down the babies who are aware of the film are hypnotized by it, or they fall asleep. Every now and then there's an odd scream, but nobody gets upset." Inspired by a mothers' support group, the Swiss supermarket chain Coop now sponsors infant-friendly screenings in Geneva and Lausanne. And in the U.S., Loew's Cineplex is offering Reel Moms sessions in 20 cities. So moms and dads, rejoice-your cinemagoing is far from cinema gone...
Newsweek however said that Goldsmith is not an “executive-power absolutist” and that he had argued in favor of the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to U.S. actions in Iraq...
...experience with war powers, according to The New York Times, and it was in his role as a deputy assistant attorney general in the department’s Office of Legal Counsel that he wrote a series of legal opinions arguing that the Bush administration could disregard the Geneva Conventions and use coercive interrogation methods in its battle against terror...
...killings carried out by their side of the divide as forgivable retaliation. The violence over the winter prompted the new international effort to prevent a lurch back into all-out war. But Erik Solheim, Norway's International Development Minister and the chief mediator in the conflict, warns that the Geneva talks are unlikely to produce quick results. Sri Lanka, he says, won't be "sorted out in a few months...
...borders?have long demanded that leaders in Colombo recognize their sovereignty. The rebels say that if this is granted, they are willing to discuss the establishment of a federal state. The government in Colombo still insists on a unified state. Even if some sort of compromise is reached in Geneva, President Mahinda Rajapakse, a Sinhalese nationalist elected last year, might be hard pressed to sell it to the south. Rajapakse was elected on a hard-line platform that promised to do away with the cease-fire agreement. By agreeing to the talks, he risks alienating extremist Sinhalese parties who want...