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...accusing the judges of being pawns of the U.S. When Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, Saddam's half brother and former spy chief, was forcibly removed from the room last week after calling the court a "child of adultery," Saddam and the entire defense team stormed out in protest. The trial, which is held in the hulking former Baath Party headquarters inside Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone, will resume Feb. 13, but the defendants may not appear in person. Instead they will be able to watch proceedings on closed-circuit television. If Saddam wants to question witnesses, which...
...Klein seems to think the Democrats are wrong to protest the wiretapping the Bush Administration is doing in the guise of tracking terrorists [Jan. 16]. Klein is out of touch with the U.S. mainstream. It's not just liberals who are objecting; many conservatives as well are concerned by the flagrant disregard of the law by Bush's approving wiretaps without a warrant or any oversight whatsoever by anyone outside the Executive Branch. Had the President followed the law, there would be no discussion about the wiretaps. If the investigations now under way indeed conclude that the wiretaps are illegal...
...protest was led by a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Medical School students called the Kinsey 2 to 6’ers. They take their name from zoologist and sexuality researcher Alfred C. Kinsey’s six-point scale. Individuals who scored two or higher on Kinsey’s scale were deemed “more than incidentally homosexual,” according to the website of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University...
...first-year Medical School student, Matthew C. Oertli, said the protest was designed “to put a face to the issue and to show that the discriminatory policy does affect actual people...
...protest came as the Supreme Court considers a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a federal statute on campus military recruitment...