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Interview With Barney Pell and Ramez Naam About Microsoft’s Powerset Acquisition: Integration By End Of Year (TechCrunch)
I spoke with Powerset cofounder/CEO Barney Pell and Microsoft’s Live Search General Program Manager Ramez Naam shortly after Microsoft’s announcement of their acquisition of Powerset earlier today. Microsoft intends to use Powerset’s natural language search technology as a major differentiating factor v. no. 1 search player Google (see our recent coverage of Live Search [...]
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Bush's top general quashed torture dissent (Salon.com)
New evidence shows that despite warnings from across the military, former Gen. Richard Myers shut down legal scrutiny of brutal interrogation tactics.
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Nancy Gast Goes ‘Overboard’ (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Nancy Gast has trials nearly every week. But unlike the trials at the Metropolitan Courthouse, she is not the judge here.
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Ken Rodriguez: History-making Latino set to retire from U.S. Secret Service (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
Tony Chapa has traveled the world undercover.
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Balkanalysis.com (Balkanalysis.com)
From time to time we intend to tap the pulse of the proleteriat, by reprinting some of the letters that arrive daily from our readers. The following is a short selection of recent missives. Here are a few of the letters we have received recently.
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Taliban ambassador wielded power within Guantanamo (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
(This is the final installment of McClatchy's Guantanamo: Beyond the Law, which can be viewed in its entirety at www.mcclatchydc.com)
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Taliban ambassador wielded power within Guantanamo (The Buffalo News)
When U.S. guards frog-marched Abdul Salam Zaeef through the cellblocks of Guantanamo, detainees would roar his name, "Mullah Zaeef! Mullah Zaeef!"
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Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
(This is the fourth installment of McClatchy's Guantanamo: Beyond the Law series, which can be viewed in full at www.mcclatchydc.com)
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Taliban ambassador wielded power within Guantanamo (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
When U.S. guards frog-marched Abdul Salam Zaeef through the cellblocks of Guantanamo, detainees would roar his name, "Mullah Zaeef! Mullah Zaeef!" Zaeef, in shackles, looked at the guards and smiled. "The soldiers told me, 'You are the king of this prison,' " he later recalled.
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Taliban ambassador wielded power within Guantánamo (Miami Herald)
When U.S. guards frog-marched Abdul Salam Zaeef through the cellblocks of Guantánamo, detainees would roar his name, "Mullah Zaeef! Mullah Zaeef!" Zaeef, in shackles, looked at the guards and smiled. "The soldiers told me, 'You are the king of this prison,' " he later recalled.
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