links for 2006-11-13
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An investigation is under way after a video of a man being repeatedly beaten by Los Angeles police officers was posted on the internet site YouTube. The video shows two officers punching William Cardenas in the face and pinning him to the ground with a kn
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Donald Rumsfeld, who quit as US defence secretary this week, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. A complaint has been launched by the US-based Centre for Constitutional Rights, representing a Saudi detained
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Scientists have used stem cells from human bone marrow to repair defective insulin-producing pancreatic cells responsible for diabetes in mice. The treatment also halted damage to the kidneys caused by the condition.
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cat blogging meets old meme
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Russ Feingold has spent his entire idiosyncratic political career espousing views because he believes them, even when those views are so plainly contrary to his political interests. He infuriated his entire party by being the only Democratic Senator to vo
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Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — For Silicon Valley venture capitalists eager to weaken the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate- governance law, it may pay to have friends in high places. The speaker’s rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives, for instance.
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CAIRO, Egypt Nov 13, 2006 (AP)— The Hamas-led Palestinian government agreed Sunday to an international peace conference with Israel after the Arab League angered by Israel’s military offensive in Gaza voted to end a financial blockade on the Palestinian
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We should be “proud” that the federal government didn’t cancel our elections? That the Bush administration didn’t use the war as an excuse to interrupt the democratic process?
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WASHINGTON — Democrats aim to open the next Congress in January with a new rule that identifies lawmakers who use legislative “earmarks” to help special interests — a change Republicans promised but didn’t implement.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 — The Bush administration said on Sunday that it would strenuously oppose one of the Democrats’ top priorities for the new Congress: legislation authorizing the government to negotiate with drug companies to secure lower drug price
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In short, the election merely codified what was going on behind the scenes in the US. Growing opposition to the war was building due to the effects of a combination of strategic paralysis and a lack of internal dialogue. Both strategic paralysis and a lac
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