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...Legal experts inside and outside the Pentagon were scrambling Tuesday to figure out the impact of Captain Allred's Monday-night decision to bar statements Hamdan made after his capture in Afghanistan in late 2001. Hamdan had been bound hand and foot 24 hours a day, sometimes with a bag over his head, in what amounted to solitary confinement at Kabul's Bagram air base, Allred said in a 16-page ruling. "The interests of justice are not served by admitting these statements," Allred ruled, "because of the highly coercive environments and conditions under which they were made...
...Edith Piaf--until Lena herself became a name to drop. The pools of Hollywood opened up to Lena when she became one of the first black film stars to escape the costume of a maid's uniform, in Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. John Barrymore kissed her hand. Orson Welles tried, unsuccessfully, to go further. Lena and Gail settled down across the street from the Humphrey Bogarts, and Gail went to school with Natalie Wood. If Lena's durable career seems to have been plucked from the book of an MGM musical of the '40s, Gail's life...
...Academy of Ancient Music (L'Oiseau-Lyre). Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 7. Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra (RCA). No greater contrast can be imagined. Original Instrument Specialist Hogwood offers light, fleet, graceful performances that explicitly evoke Beethoven's classical- period roots. Toscanini, on the other hand, is rough and hard charging in these readings from 1949 and 1951. Once, Toscanini's Beethoven was Beethoven, as surely handed down from on high as Schnabel's. Today, Toscanini's interpretations sound merely coarse, the vaunted NBC Symphony distinctly second-rate. What, one wonders, was all the fuss about? Beethoven...
...majority that is clear about abortion rights and getting clearer about why abortion has to be protected by our Constitution.'' Some opinions were more qualified. ''We would have preferred a 7-to-2 decision,'' said Eve Paul, vice president for legal affairs for Planned Parenthood. ''On the other hand, I don't think the end of the world has come.'' Indeed, despite all the litigation, the number of reported abortions in the U.S. has stayed fairly steady since the late 1970s, at about 1.5 million a year. Legal experts cautioned against assuming too much from Burger's apparent defection. Harvard...
...their backs in the waves and cracking clams on their chests. But the schooling orcas were a rarity. ''You don't see this but a couple of times a year, if even that,'' said Clark, who came from Montana 14 years ago and thus qualifies as an old Alaska hand. Tourists in Alaska become old hands quickly, but at first view it is not merely whales and glaciers and steaming volcanoes that are marvels. The tiny single-engine floatplanes and ski-planes themselves, the delivery vans and taxis of the roadless north, are just as scary and exotic. They seem...