News Round-up

BOSTON (Reuters)

Graduate business students in the United States and Canada are more likely to cheat on their work than their counterparts in other academic fields, the author of a research paper said on Wednesday.

Just "good" ol' yankee mercantilism gone too far in our culture of greed and avarice.

NEW DELHI (Reuters)

India does not want waif-like young women sashaying down the catwalk and acting as role models for thousands of girls who are starving themselves to get svelte figures, the Indian health minister said.

First Spain, now India - healthy chicks of the world unite, the day of the waif has passed.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)

The Bush administration emptied its CIA prisons and transferred top terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay partly because CIA officers refused to carry out interrogations, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

This is certainly news of the most interesting sort. Nobody has ever accused or expected spys ot have more scruples than military folks but apparently they do.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)

President George W. Bush said on Wednesday if he had firm intelligence that Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan, he would issue the order to go into that country after the al Qaeda leader.

So here we have it - Pakistan went out on a limb and supported the US invasion of Afghanistan (risking social chaos, civil war and possible jihad). Since the invasion Pakistan has made a good faith effort to find Taliban within its borders. All of that seems not good enough. Now GW threatens to violate the sovereignty of this nation that has only acted the part of the ally. It is not good to be friends with the neoconservatives.


WASHINGTON (CNN)

The White House and dissenting GOP senators settled a disagreement Thursday on a bill setting out procedures for interrogating terror suspects and trying them in front of military tribunals.

From Ken Grandlund concerning the above

So much of what we’ve seen goes against all that America has historically stood for. So I must ask those who support this president and his policies, in the wake of condoning and, in some cases, embracing the practice of torture, Where Will The Line Be Drawn?

Bush; Pakistan; greed; torture