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...Palmerston wrote to the emperor and the commanders of a British force sent to Canton. While the Chinese were fully entitled to enforce their anti-opium edicts, it was something else entirely to punish the innocent together with the guilty and to threaten lives without charge or trial. The force should seek reparations for the insults to the Queen’s officer at Canton, and to British people; to secure the opening of other ports to trade; to get agreement that the British and everyone else could trade in China; and to send British diplomats to Beijing...
...three states where the similar laws are in effect, few cases have gone to trial, suggesting that either the cases are settled or the burden of proof in these other states is just too high. Senator John Cullerton, the Democratic head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is expected to consider the bill later this month, said he is "philosophically in agreement with [it]." He expects that wide, bipartisan support from the House, where it passed last year with just one abstention, will carry over in the Senate. "But I need to, we all need to, look at it closely...
...Libby trial may make Bush want to ensure some distance. Libby told Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigating the CIA leak that his "superiors" had authorized him to reveal classified information from a secret report about Iraq's weapons capability. Could Cheney have been one of those superiors? In his Fox interview, Cheney declared that "there is an Executive Order that specifies who has classification authority and obviously focuses first and foremost on the President but also includes the Vice President." In fact, a 2003 update of a 1995 Executive Order gives the Vice President additional authority over classification...
These latest studies, which are part of the giant Women's Health Initiative, are not likely to be contradicted anytime soon. Investigators tested the benefits of calcium and vitamin D in the most scientifically rigorous way possible--with a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial...
...Take that hammer and knock yourself on the head." SADDAM HUSSEIN, former President of Iraq, addressing Raouf Abdel-Rahman, the gavel-wielding chief judge in his trial. Hussein, who has made frequent court outbursts, also announced that he was on a hunger strike...