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...Nobel prize in 1997 for his work on cooling atoms with laser lights, comes from a family of academic high achievers—both parents attended M.I.T. and his brothers hold degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law School...
...law here." -Naseem Khan, a business owner in Wana, the capital of South Waziristan. (U.S. News and World Report...
...Amnesty's report, "France: Police Above the Law," cites hard-to-obtain official statistics on abuse investigations culled from a variety of legal sources and studies. Those figures indicate charges of brutality are rarely substantiated or punished. It says that of 639 inquiries of police mistreatment in 2006, a mere eight cases resulted in the accused being dismissed from the force. In 2005 - when Amnesty first sounded the alarm about the problem - 16 out of 663 investigations led to the ouster of accused cops. By contrast, there's been an explosion in cases and convictions of "outrage," an offense based...
...only are victims of police violence being denied justice, but both they and anyone else who denounces the mistreatment often find themselves under attack for insulting a law enforcer when those accusations wind up discounted," Diaz-Jogeix explains. That happens, he charges, because preliminary inquiries are usually handled by the police themselves and so inspectors are often less than dogged in confirming accusations against their peers...
...French law officials deny the report's allegations of de facto police immunity, and also protest the characterization of the review process as complicit to the accused. (See pictures of France celebrating Bastille...