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...organizations lose credibility when they make judgments that are wrong. I got the impression that Kinsley wants journalists to be above accountability, that no matter what they print they are above it all. But the marketplace decides which products survive and which don't. William Rolston Vancouver Torture on Trial Ron Suskind's viewpoint [Sept. 18] on the CIA torture of detained al-Qaeda operatives made clear that information obtained through torture or physical abuse is rarely of any use. When the President announced he would review our policy on torture, that should have been a rather short review...
...lawyers, engineers, and nurses on juries, so I don’t see any reason why [a student] couldn’t be chosen.”A CIVICS LESSONTechrosette Leng ’07 says she was selected and served in Cambridge last April on a four-day trial that resulted in the defendant’s conviction for sexual assault and battery.Leng says she missed all of her classes on the first day of the trial, but subsequent days were shortened to alleviate the burden on serving jurors.She says she thought jury duty was a great experience...
...claimed more than 30,000 lives; to life imprisonment; in Lima. Guzmán's partner Elena Iparraguirre, 59, also received a life sentence and 10 associates got 24 to 35 years. The verdicts end a yearlong hearing before a civil tribunal, Guzmán's third trial since his capture in 1992. His lawyers plan to appeal...
...Earlier on Sunday, lead police investigator Major General Yohanan Danino had met with Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and his senior aides. His team, Danino told prosecutors, had in recent months amassed enough evidence to convince them that Katsav should stand trial for nine separate offences, ranging from two counts of rape to the charge of abusing his office. Ironically, the investigation began after Katsav himself had approached Mazuz claiming a female aide was blackmailing him with threats to go public with accusations of sexual harassment. Katsav wanted the aide's conduct investigated and called her a liar, a strategy...
...Iranian-born career politician was elected president by the Knesset's Presidential vote in 2000, a victory as surprising then as his apparent fall from grace has been now. Katsav seems unlikely to escape indictment and, if his case does go to trial, could face imprisonment. His is hardly the first high-level political scandal in Israel: Several past presidents, cabinet ministers and prime ministers have been investigated for financial improprieties; ex-Justice Minister Haim Ramon resigned this past August after being indicted for sexual harassment. But that won't lessen the sting for Olmert, who has seen his support...