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President Barack Obama’s renewed request to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, confirms what the detainees have already shown with their hunger strike: Permanent detention at the U.S. naval station isn’t viable as a matter of practicality or conscience.
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Natural gas is leaking into well water in New York and Pennsylvania from nearby drilling sites, according to a study by Duke University.
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Three U.S. companies plan to start operations in Cameroon this year, while the U.S. Agency for International Development will return to the country after an 18-year absence, U.S. Ambassador Robert Jackson said.
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Marc Albertsen, the bespectacled, 62-year-old research director at Pioneer Hi-Bred, DuPont Co. ’s seed-development unit, was catching up on paperwork one morning in July 2007 when he got a call from an assistant, Sharon Cerwick.
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The biggest problem with the recently disclosed Obama administration white paper defending the drone killing of radical clerk Anwar al-Awlaki isn’t its secrecy or its creative redefinition of the words “imminent threat.” It is the revolutionary and shocking transformation of the meaning of due process.
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As the hearings over her confirmation move forward and the scrutiny of Elena Kagan intensifies, both parties seem convinced that the drama will benefit them.
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The New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy came under attack from city council members considering four laws that would restrict the encounters and create an inspector general to monitor the practices.
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Wilmington Trust Corp ., the recipient of a $330 million taxpayer bailout, took back about $2 million in pay from Chief Executive Officer Donald Foley because the compensation broke U.S. Treasury Department rules.
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Elena Kagan , nominated by President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court, has been depicted as a common-touch populist with the judicial intellect of Louis Brandeis and the political skills of William Brennan .
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