Archive for July, 2008

Attorney - Lawyers for Detainee Assert Coercion - New York Times

Posted in Uncategorized on July 31st, 2008

Lawyers for Detainee Assert Coercion - New York Times


Washington Post

Lawyers for Detainee Assert Coercion
New York Times - 24 minutes ago
By WILLIAM GLABERSON GUANT NAMO BAY, Cuba - A secret government document submitted at the trial of the first detainee to face a war crimes trial confirms the detainee s account of having been sexually humiliated while interrogated by a female
9/11 Architect Is Unlikely to Aid Defense Of Ex-Driver Washington Post
Bin Laden’s driver denies making loyalty oath The Associated Press
Reuters  - Reuters UK  - Los Angeles Times  - The Olympian
all 740 news articles

Cat, 20 kilos, up for adoption
Shelter officials have called the porker Princess Chunk and are hoping she will find a nice, ideally diet-friendly home. She s built like a quarterback, said Deborah Wright, a Camden County Animal Shelter volunteer and current foster owner of the kitty. I mean, how do you lose a 44-pound (20-kilo) cat?!

Posted in Kitty Mowmow s Animal Expo (View Technorati URL search 58 links from 27 sites)

Now Fawning | Vanity Fair s International Best-Dressed List - New York Times


The Money Times

Now Fawning | Vanity Fair s International Best-Dressed List
New York Times - 7 hours ago
By Ben Widdicombe Vanity Fair s International Best-Dressed List is an excruciating pleasure. For the socially ambitious, reading it is the fashion equivalent of having hot wax drizzled over you by a fetishistic lover.
New York women dominate Vanity Fair’s best-dressed list New York Daily News
Michelle Obama makes the cut to best-dressed list The Canadian Press
E! Online  - Los Angeles Times  - People Magazine  - Right Celebrity
all 191 news articles

Newspaper Roundup: Yahoo; NYT; Tribune; Star-Ledger (CBS News)
– *Yahoo* Newspaper Consortium : While Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) does not release the amount it has helped its Newspaper Consortium members earn, it does have traffic numbers. As of last month, the 779 member sites passed the 100 million mark in pageviews since the program started last August. As for individual members, some, like Media General (NYSE: MEG), do highlight the alliance’s contributions: …

T. Boone Pickens Dumps Yahoo Shares For A Loss; Slams Management (Forbes)
T. Boone Pickens , the oilman-turned-wind power advocate, has sold his 10 million Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) shares for a loss.

News Analysis Fiscal Woes of the Past Prod Paterson to Act Early - New York Times


The Southern Ledger

News Analysis Fiscal Woes of the Past Prod Paterson to Act Early
New York Times - 39 minutes ago
By DANNY HAKIM ALBANY - It was early 2002. Wall Street s profits had collapsed after the 9/11 attacks, unemployment was on the rise and tax revenue was plummeting.
Thank you, Ashley Dupre, for getting bumbling Spitzer axed in time New York Daily News
UPDATE 2-NY gov slashes spending; state said in “recession” Reuters
San Francisco Chronicle  - Bizjournals.com  - The Associated Press  - WNYC
all 457 news articles

McCain Payroll Tax Pain - Gymnastics Edition - FOXNews


Boston Globe

McCain Payroll Tax Pain - Gymnastics Edition
FOXNews - 57 minutes ago
by Major Garrett Under fire since Sunday for opening the door to payroll tax increases as part of a Social Security deal, John McCain escaped a policy full-nelson of his own creation, telling himself as much as his audience in Aurora, Colo.
McCain: No New Taxes (Redux) New York Times
McCain in Kansas City: What he said Kansas City Star
Washington Post  - Reuters  - The Associated Press  - Wall Street Journal
all 926 news articles

Newspaper Roundup: Yahoo; NYT; Tribune; Star-Ledger; NY Newsday/Cablevision (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
– *Yahoo* Newspaper Consortium: While Yahoo does not release the financials related to its Newspaper Consortium, but some of the ad and content alliance’s members do. Last week, Media General said it expected more than $7 million in revenues from the partnership this year up from last year’s $3.5 million tied to the Newspaper Consortium.

Harmonisation vs the Charter
Last week s SCAG meeting focused, as it nearly always does, on harmonisation of Australia s (and NZ s) legal systems … for the national DNA database - was directly responsible for the adoption of incredibly substandard laws

Posted in Charterblog (View Technorati URL search 45 links from 13 sites)