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...most troubling aspects of the new rule, civil libertarians say, is that the Attorney General--not a neutral party, like a judge--decides when law enforcement can listen in. You don't need to know much more constitutional law than you'd get on The Practice to realize this sort of monitoring goes to the core of the American justice system. Sure enough, by last week the Administration was backpedaling on this point--not rescinding the rule, but going out of its way to say only 16 of the 158,000 inmates in the federal system have been assigned...
...same, it is much too soon for George Harrison to be gone. All things must pass, he said. O.K., we say back. O.K., we know. We have lived through Sept. 11. We have seen things pass. We listen to his song differently now, cherishing it as a warning against old complacencies and a promise that the darkness of this moment too shall pass. But about some things, we still feel the same way. One of them is this: Long live the Beatles...
...same, it is much too soon for George Harrison to be gone. All things must pass, he said. O.K., we say back. O.K., we know. We have lived through Sept. 11. We have seen things pass. We listen to his song differently now, cherishing it as a warning against old complacencies and a promise that the darkness of this moment too shall pass. But about some things, we still feel the same way. One of them is this: Long live the Beatles...
Family and friends held a memorial service for Packer in Scarsdale, New York, where he and his wife had gone in recent years to listen to choral music. A second memorial at a Merrill Lynch office in New Jersey brought out about 600 people...
...truth can be used selectively. To get Iraqi soldiers to listen to its program during the 1991 Desert Storm War, Commando Solo broadcast the targets U.S. warplanes would strike each day. To win its market share in Afghanistan, bombers knocked out Radio Sharia, the Taliban station, and Commando Solo began broadcasting on a frequency near Sharia's. The CIA sent in radios for villages and Commando Solo played popular Afghan music the Taliban had banned from the airwaves...