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Harper's Magazine: Founded June 1850.
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SCOTT HORTON—The Case for Prosecutions
In an interview on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” British international law scholar Philippe Sands reviews the prospects for war crimes prosecutions of leading figures of the Bush Administration. Most likely to face indictment in his view: Cheney chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Defense Department General Counsel (and now Chevron lawyer) Jim Haynes, and torture memorandum author and University of California law professor John Yoo. Download the interview here. . . .
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KEN SILVERSTEIN—Dennis Ross: Could he be a three-time loser?
From Augustus Richard Norton: . . .
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SCOTT HORTON—Kristol Meth
William Kristol gives thousands of Americans hope. He shows us that a mediocrity can find a home as a columnist at The New York Times. His latest column, discussing—well, what exactly is it discussing? It’s hard to make any sense of it. It starts as a justification of Israeli operations in Gaza and quickly transforms itself into a call for war against Iran. The Gaza operation is, after all, just a warm-up. I just came across Joe Klein’s dissection of Kristol’s column in Time: . . .
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SCOTT HORTON—Blackwater Arraignments
Quick note: I recently spoke with the Los Angeles Times about the arraignment of a group of Blackwater guards on federal charges arising out of the Nisoor Square incident. More background can be found in this post from last January. . . .
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WYATT MASON—A Little Stroke of Luck
Yesterday’s mail brought the beautiful little book whose cover you see, with its sketch by P. Picasso of the wounded author–1,266 pages of Guillaume Apollinaire’s complete poems. The edition in question of this under-appreciated poet comes from Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, the in-every-sense-top-shelf volumes of canonical writings published by Gallimard. They’re bafflingly expensive, but occasionally one can find them for more reasonable rates online. . . .
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