Monthly Archive: June 2006
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...
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...
Bono: I Can’t Stand Whingeing Rock Stars
CHARLIE ROSE: How often do you just get tired of it and say, you know, justI got to get away, I’ve got toI can’t BONO: Oh, I can’t stand CHARLIE ROSE:I can’t take one...
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....
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!...
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...
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...
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...
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...