Hints and tips:
...For sceptics, an obvious comparison is the case of John Edwards....
...Palazzo d’Avalos, the 16th century Bourbon royal palace that until 1988 was used as a maximum-security prison, looms over the north-eastern part of the island from atop its craggy promontory, its dun-coloured...
...Following the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol last summer, Cardiff City Hall said it would remove a statue of Thomas Picton, the governor of Trinidad who authorised the torture of a 13-year-old...
...Born in Pune, India, and raised in Mumbai, Sawant studied economics in North Carolina before becoming a software engineer at Nortel, the Canadian telecoms company....
...“The central message of Steele’s dossier was strikingly right,” say the authors....
...David Gardner writes that a war of attrition in north-west Syria is spiralling out of control....
...(FT, WSJ) The days ahead Central bankers testify Jay Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, will appear before the Senate later today after telling the House on Tuesday that the US central bank was “...
...(FT) Thomas Piketty returns The French economist’s last blockbuster elevated the issue of inequality....
...He describes how wardens woke him up every 15 minutes at night to check if he was alive....
...“Most of the Republicans have sold out their values for political power,” said Edward Alden, a trade expert at the Council on Foreign Relations....
...Others might take a more equivocal view given the accusations of mass killings and atrocities in the north of Sri Lanka that accompanied the end of the war....
...Gerhardt, professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, claims he has never had so much fun writing a book as he did with this one....
...“Most of us here have drivers. They talk to each other and give each other tips, [or] call each other if they see a traffic warden coming.”...
...Mr Obama, whose speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, kicked off a 17-day economic tour of the key general election battleground states, also mocked Mr McCain’s policy of cutting back on earmarks – specific...
...Edward Kennedy, the Massachusetts senator, said the court had “rejected the Bush administration’s blatant attempt to create a legal black hole beyond the reach of the rule of law”....
...On the left stood a row of six tables for the defence teams; across the central aisle, another three rows of tables for the prosecutors; between the two halves a podium....
...Agency prisons....
...In particular, the Justice Department is aggressively trying to identify the sources for two explosive news stories: the existence of secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons in eastern Europe, and the...
...prison dehumanises, but also releases strange kinds of ingenuity....
...Bill Thomas, the powerful Republican head of the House ways and means committee, was approached by Sander Levin, then the top Democrat in the committee on trade issues and a supporter of most of the big...
...Standing beside him was Thomas Cottone Jr, who became very interested in the array of medals on Edwards’ chest....
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