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...their protests, and the attention focused on Guantanamo, the U.S. is facing growing criticism - from both allies and enemies - for the rules of detention at the camp. Now the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision effectively grants prisoners at least some of their longstanding demands, including more rights at trial. All the same, most of them are unlikely to be released soon. Indeed, authorities are currently constructing a new, state-of-the-art, $30 million prison at Guantanamo, where they plan to consolidate many of the camp's maximum-security inmates. Harris argues the camp will be needed for the forseeable...
...only problem? Lucentis will likely cost more than 100 times as much as the temporary fix.??A dose of Avastin for the eye costs as little as $13, says Rosenfeld, who is also a lead author on Lucentis trial reports. (Using FDA-approved drugs for "off-label" uses is??common practice, especially in ophthalmology.) Lucentis is almost certain to be pricier when Genentech announces the U.S. sales tag: competing treatments cost up to $3000 per dose...
...Still, Chicago's patronage patriarchy has been taking more than its usual share of knocks lately. No doubt the Cook County power brokers are sneaking peeks at the week's other big local headline: the winding down of the seven-week corruption trial of Mayor's Daley's former patronage chief Robert Sorich and three Co-defendants. The group is accused of engaging in a complicated scheme to ensure that politically connected job applicants received favorable treatment in city hiring and promotions. The federal investigation, led by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (the same one overseeing the Valerie Plame CIA leak...
...Guantánamo Bay [June 5]. Is there any evidence that detaining and questioning those prisoners has protected the lives of Americans at all? What acute danger did 15-year-old Omar Khadr pose that warranted his detention with adults? If there is evidence, then put him on trial; otherwise, release him! It is a scandal and just unbelievable that the detainees, who may not be terrorists, do not get a trial, have no rights and have no prospect of the situation changing. How can the world just sit there and watch this happen? Hermann Hacker Weinstadt, Germany
...fate of those who defend Saddam Hussein." ONLOOKER outside an Iraqi police station where the body of Khamis al-Obeidi, one of the former dictator's defense lawyers, was being held. Al-Obeidi, abducted and murdered last week, was the third member of the defense team killed since the trial began...