SCHOONER BRINGS MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO CUBA
"The ship is carrying 100-150 boxes of medical supplies, sports equipment and special wheelchairs for organizations in Baracoa, Cuba, that help the blind, elderly, handicapped and women with high-risk pregnancies. Voyager is making its second humanitarian mission to Cuba, but the St. Augustine-Baracoa Friendship Association has already made two dozen trips to Cuba to help people in need."
(ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD, unearthed by CubaNews Digest)
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Thursday, December 25, 2003
Village Voice:
FILM CRITICS' POLL
Here's the list of the best films for the year as seen by the critics for the Village Voice.
(VILLAGE VOICE)
FILM CRITICS' POLL
Here's the list of the best films for the year as seen by the critics for the Village Voice.
(VILLAGE VOICE)
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
FELIX AWARDS
Michael Musto's annual Felix Awards do need an introduction, but rather than waste time trying to come up with a truly appropriate one, let's just get on with the honors—the wacky wrap-up of the year in tears, fears, queers, and male brassieres. These tawdry trophies make the Golden Globes look relevant. And the Felixes go to . . .
(VILLAGE VOICE)
Michael Musto's annual Felix Awards do need an introduction, but rather than waste time trying to come up with a truly appropriate one, let's just get on with the honors—the wacky wrap-up of the year in tears, fears, queers, and male brassieres. These tawdry trophies make the Golden Globes look relevant. And the Felixes go to . . .
(VILLAGE VOICE)
Tuesday, December 23, 2003
CASTRO: BATTLE OF IDEAS
...this is a country where no school-age child is to be seen roaming about or begging in the streets, where 100% of elementary-age children go to school and graduate from sixth grade, and that it is the only country in the hemisphere - including the United States - where 100% of children enroll in seventh grade and 99.5% of teenagers graduate from ninth grade. "This is a country, the only one in the hemisphere, where, from birth, children have the possibility of growing up healthy, of having a liter of milk a day, the necessary food, and, in terms of their schooling, can progress from kindergarten to graduation as a doctor of science without having to spend a single cent," he observed.
(GRANMA, unearthed by Cuban Daily News Digest)
...this is a country where no school-age child is to be seen roaming about or begging in the streets, where 100% of elementary-age children go to school and graduate from sixth grade, and that it is the only country in the hemisphere - including the United States - where 100% of children enroll in seventh grade and 99.5% of teenagers graduate from ninth grade. "This is a country, the only one in the hemisphere, where, from birth, children have the possibility of growing up healthy, of having a liter of milk a day, the necessary food, and, in terms of their schooling, can progress from kindergarten to graduation as a doctor of science without having to spend a single cent," he observed.
(GRANMA, unearthed by Cuban Daily News Digest)
BATTLEFIELD CHICAGO
...[T]he Bush Administration has insisted on treating [Yaser] Hamdi and [Jose] Padilla as soldiers. Labeling them "enemy combatants," the administration asserts that they may be held without any legal process whatsoever until the "war on terror" is over....
...(In upholding the detention of Hamdi) the Fourth Circuit's ruling was frighteningly broad. But what the government was asking the Second Circuit to do in the Padilla case was still more dramatic: to sanction the indefinite detention of an American citizen who was not captured on a foreign battlefield, but rather picked up in Chicago. The government was arguing, in short, that the one fact that the Hamdi court relied upon was one fact too many.
Although the district court that heard Padilla's habeas corpus request ruled that the government should have to provide "some evidence" in support of its position that Padilla was an enemy combatant, the government disagreed. In its view, no fact, no evidence, and no legal process should be required.
The Second Circuit ruled against the government on broader grounds than did the district court, and thus did not discuss the government's burden of proof. Yet its opinion was in many ways a narrow one, which in no way challenged the government's key underlying claims. It did not, for example, question the Bush Administration's assertion that the "war on terror" is a literal war, unlike, for instance, the Cold War or the War on Drugs.
(FINDLAW COMMENTARY)
...[T]he Bush Administration has insisted on treating [Yaser] Hamdi and [Jose] Padilla as soldiers. Labeling them "enemy combatants," the administration asserts that they may be held without any legal process whatsoever until the "war on terror" is over....
...(In upholding the detention of Hamdi) the Fourth Circuit's ruling was frighteningly broad. But what the government was asking the Second Circuit to do in the Padilla case was still more dramatic: to sanction the indefinite detention of an American citizen who was not captured on a foreign battlefield, but rather picked up in Chicago. The government was arguing, in short, that the one fact that the Hamdi court relied upon was one fact too many.
Although the district court that heard Padilla's habeas corpus request ruled that the government should have to provide "some evidence" in support of its position that Padilla was an enemy combatant, the government disagreed. In its view, no fact, no evidence, and no legal process should be required.
The Second Circuit ruled against the government on broader grounds than did the district court, and thus did not discuss the government's burden of proof. Yet its opinion was in many ways a narrow one, which in no way challenged the government's key underlying claims. It did not, for example, question the Bush Administration's assertion that the "war on terror" is a literal war, unlike, for instance, the Cold War or the War on Drugs.
(FINDLAW COMMENTARY)
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