Monthly Archive: June 2006

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Unconventional Treatment

Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid … to prove his innocence before a special military tribunal … Mr Mujahid called four witnesses from Afghanistan. But months later the tribunal president returned...

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Reality Distortion Field Dented

Apple Computer uncovered what it called “irregularities” related to certain stock options … issued between 1997 and 2001, and involve one grant to Chief Executive Steve Jobs … in at least one instance of...

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School’s Out

In January 2003, Spc. Sean Baker put on a Guantanamo prisoner’s uniform to allow soldiers to practice extracting a prisoner from a cell. The extraction team did not know that Baker was an American....

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Big Box Miracle

Together with a few sister big box stores (Target, Best Buy, and Home Depot), Wal-Mart accounts for roughly 50% of Americas much vaunted productivity growth edge over Europe during the last decade. Fifty percent!...

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Kabul Tailor Blues

“Nearly five years on, there is no rule of law, no accountability. The Afghans know it is all a charade, and they see us as not only complicit but actively involved. You cannot fight...

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Slip And Slide Suicide

Should all of [Greenland’s] ice sheet ever thaw, the meltwater could raise sea level 21 feet and swamp the world’s coastal cities, home to a billion people … the glaciers of Greenland are melting...

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Mogadishu Musical Chairs

A fundamentalist Muslim whom the U.S. suspects of collaborating with Al Qaeda terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamist militia that has seized control of [Mogadishu]. The militia … appointed...

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50,000 And Rising

At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion … a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration … Proportionately, it is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed...