| The Freedmen's Remedy
Because the issue of water-boarding will not be subject to a protracted legal battle. To the extent the upcoming military commissions address the issue at all, it will happen—as it is happening now—in a black box, cloaked in assertions of secrecy. For one thing, the Military Commissions Act passed by Congress permits the government to assert national security privilege where sources and methods of obtaining information are concerned. They can keep this evidence from the defense, so long as the military judge finds the sources and methods are classified. In Hamdan, the government has already asserted that this prohibition extends to the interviews of the detainees themselves concerning their interrogations, and as such, the government has already erected a wall of silence around the high-value detainees extending even to their interviews.
Schools’calendar familiar
Columbia Public Schools students would start the 2008-09 school year on Tuesday, Aug. 19, and would have the Nov. 4 presidential Election Day off under a calendar being proposed by the district. The calendar essentially mirrors this school year, with a mid-August start date, a two-week winter break and a weeklong spring break. The calendar also has four built-in snow days that, if used, would require students to be in school until June 3, 2009. The calendar would end first semester before the winter break, a schedule change implemented for the first time this year. "We asked teachers on a survey if they liked the semester ending prior to the winter break, and they were just overwhelmingly supportive," Assistant Superintendent Lynn Barnett said. "Parents and children weve talked to have been very supportive of it, too, so it looks like something well continue." The public can weigh in on the calendar through a survey posted on the districts Web site, www.columbia.k12.mo.us.
Wreckage To Get Detailed Exam
Sunday, members of the Phoenix police dive team entered a murky pond at Steele Indian School Park to look for pieces from the wrecked helicopters. Divers reportedly struggled in sticky mud inside the pond near the site of the crash. After several hours, the divers recovered a door from the ABC 15 helicopter along with a pair of binoculars and other debris. .
Seahawks gearing up for stiff competition
The surprise was evident on the faces of the Myrtle Beach girls basketball players as they came to the bench for a timeout. For a team used to dominating every opponent from beginning to end, even Timberland's 6-3 advantage after three minutes of Friday's second-round playoff game was a shock to Myrtle Beach. The Seahawks answered with a 6-0 run to regain the lead and they never trailed again, but coach Mickey Hunter believes those three minutes of adversity could make a huge difference in the outcome of this season. "I think it helped us to be down three in the first quarter," he said. "We kind of realized Timberland is pretty good and we have to lace them up and be ready to play. We kept our composure when we did have a little adversity. That's something we haven't had to do." The Seahawks (24-2) have basically been on cruise control since Christmas, when they suffered their only two losses in the Crescent Bank Holiday Invitational.
Sharon Bush defends alleged JFK love child
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush's former sister-in-law has defended a man in Canada publicized as the love child of President John Kennedy, Vancouver media reported.
Sharon Bush, the former wife of the president's brother, Neil, told British Columbia's Vancouver Sun media scrutiny and criticism of Jack Worthington was unfounded, as she dated him after her divorce and knew him well.
"He is a fine man, highly ethical, a man of high integrity," Bush said.
Bush said she was speaking out after a British tabloid discredited a media investigation launched more than a year ago by Vanity Fair magazine into the background of Worthington, who bears a strong resemblance to the Kennedy family.
Earlier this week, Worthington showed the Globe and Mail his U.S.
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE: Biagi transit leases Napa warehouse
Brian Foster of Meridian Commercial is marketing 201 Alameda del Prado for lease or sale. The asking price for the three-story office building is $9.84 million, or about $300 a square foot.
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Marin Freeholders LP, which built 139,000 square feet of office and flex space in the Industrial Marinship District of north Sausalito in the 1960s and 1970s, wants to sell it as a portfolio, according to Orion Partners' Jerry Suyderhoud, who is marketing the property with part-owner John Greene of R.H. Greene.
The 11 buildings sit on seven parcels totaling 5.42 acres along Colma Street between Bridgeway and Gate Five Road. The complex is totally full with 80 tenants, including Sausalito Mini Storage and Pacific Laser.
The owners are taking bids on the portfolio and may sell the parcels individually, according to Mr.
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