Maguindanao trial starts: 200 accused and 500 witnesses
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:56:23 -0700
Quezon City Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes opens on Wednesday the trial of the November 2009 Maguindanao massacre, with nearly 200 accused and a list of over 500 witnesses.
Final Chapters | Recent deaths in the news
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:48:05 -0700
William P. Foster , credited with innovating a much-imitated, high-stepping style as founder and longtime director of the Florida A&M Marching “100” Band. Foster died Saturday in Tallahassee, Fla. He was 91. Foster served as the marching band’s director from 1946 until his retirement in 1998. He created more than 200 halftime pageants for the band at the historically black university. Gloria ...
Nuremberg Laws Transferred to National Archives
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:54:31 -0700
The original Nuremberg Laws documents were transferred to the National Archives in Washington, where they will reside permanently.
World News
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:50:46 -0700
DNA clears dead man suspected of family killings - Today, 09:28 - PA DNA evidence in Texas ruled out a major lead in the case of a fugitive Australian man accused of killing his pregnant wife and their three...
Bruno Schleinstein: Actor, musician and outsider artist best known for his film collaborations with Werner Herzog
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:05:29 -0700
Bruno Schleinstein – or "Bruno S" – was an outsider musician-artist-actor, best-known for his semi-autobiographical portrayals of Kaspar Hauser and Stroszek for Herzog, who described him as "the unknown soldier of German cinema". But his misfortunes led him to cast a baleful gaze over the world.
The world government
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:25:45 -0700
IN my recent Reflection of two days ago – on August 15 – I wrote, commenting on an article by Cuban journalist Randy Alonso – who hosts the "Roundtable" national television program – about a meeting that took place at Barcelona’s Dolce Hotel on what he calls ‘World Government’: "…Other honest writers like him were likewise following the news that somehow was leaked from that strange meeting.
NYFF Announces 'Masterworks'
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:23:08 -0700
The New York Film Festival just announced this year's "Masterworks" series and contemporary special events and man, does it look appetizing. In fact, maybe even more appetizing than their main slate.
Birds Of A Feather writer Laurence Marks on how a Nazi watch inspired his new play
Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:26:41 -0700
The Jewish scriptwriter was thrilled to discover his $200 vintage watch was worth £50,000. The catch? It once belonged to Hitler's right-hand man.
Military trial of Omar Khadr condemned by Anmesty
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:00:33 -0700
The rights group Amnesty International has condemned the US government for allowing the military commission trial of Omar Khadr at the Guantánamo Bay detention centre to go ahead.
Matthew Norman: The zenith of our celebrity culture
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:23:56 -0700
"So, this Mlle Carole White, mon ami, what did you make of 'er testimony?Was zere not one thing in her statement that seemed to you a leetle, shall we say, peculiar?" "Can't say that there was, Poirot. I mustn't have been listening at the time."
The Omar Khadr case makes a mockery of US justice
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:45:46 -0700
After eight years in Guantanamo, the last western “enemy combatant” faces a deeply flawed trial.
Hiroshima — war crime or not?
Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:45:41 -0700
Lots of the papers today are filled with news stories about the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. There has been much discussion of how, for the first time, a representative of the United States -- Ambassador John Roos -- decided to attend.
US military wants concessions from Wikileaks
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:15:33 -0700
The Pentagon has asked whistleblower website Wikileaks hand over thousands of leaked US military documents.
Room with a panoramic view: How Emma Donoghue's latest novel aims to tell a universal story
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:17:01 -0700
Good novels have a habit of reading their critics' minds. Last week Room, the seventh novel by the Irish-born writer (and now Canadian citizen) Emma Donoghue, reached the long-list of the Man Booker Prize. Even before the selection it came trailing clouds of expectation: the bidding war, the rights deals, the talking-up and talking-past that can smother a book with its own renown even before it ...
Pentagon to WikiLeaks: Return Our Secret Documents, Or Else
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:16:29 -0700
The U.S. Department of Defense has issued a demand to WikiLeaks : Return all the secret documents related to the war in Afghanistan, or else. In a press briefing, Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell made it very clear the Pentagon isn’t…
German scouts visit Frankenmuth Boy Scouts for a cultural learning experience
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:15:24 -0700
Scouts from Frankenmuth's sister city, Gunzenhausen, Germany, arrive today to spend one week with members of Frankenmuth Boy Scout Troops 255 and 275.
Nuremberg library seeks to return Nazi theft books via internet
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:42:50 -0700
Nuremberg, Germany - Nuremberg's city library is turning to the internet to reunite Jewish families with 10,000 books stolen under Nazi rule in Germany, the head of the library announced Thursday.
Intellectuals have responsibilities in times of war and militarization
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:50:45 -0700
A tremendous scandal recently unfolded at Harvard University involving a renowned scientist in the field of animal cognition whose research techniques and experiments have been charged with eight counts of “scientific misconduct.”
