The Fourth International Conference on Workplace Bullying wrapped up in Norway yesterday. And corporate America is filled with bullying bosses, who often get away with their tirades as long as they don’t hurt the bottom line.
Advocates for the bullied say enough is enough, and that the fallguys need legal protection. But corporate employment attorneys [...]

After her surprise breakup with Ken earlier this year, Barbie has a new boyfriend: a surfer dude named Blaine from Australia.
American media is filled these days with news about the marital machinations of J.Lo and Britney. In this radio diary, Cambridge writer Joan Wickersham wonders if we can really be surprised by the breakup [...]

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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that military prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba could challenge their detention in U.S. courts. Now, senior Bush administration officials are considering moving hundreds of detainees from Cuba to prisons within the U.S.
John Herndon, a staff writer in Washington for the Los Angeles Times who is covering the [...]

Today, Iraqis assumed legal custody of Saddam Hussein. American officials still hold the former Iraqi leader but the transfer is being heralded as the first step in helping Iraqis address their difficult past.
Saddam’s trial will pose distinct challenges for the new Iraqi government as well as the international community.
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Number one at the box office this past weekend, Michael Moore’s new documentary, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” is generating a heated storm of controversy across the country.
The documentary is typical of Michael Moore — filled with ironic humor from a self-described iconoclastic working class crusader. But Moore’s crusade this time, against President Bush and the war in [...]

Tomorrow the Army plans to announce an involuntary mobilization of thousands of reserve troops for deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mark Mazetti, defense correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, talks about how many soldiers will be notified about possible deployment.
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Mark Mazetti, defense correspondent, Los Angeles Times

In the buildup to the Iraq war last year, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz testified before Congress that “oil revenues of Iraq could bring between $50 to $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years.”
Current revenues are a fraction of those estimates and are not likely to increase in the [...]

The first day of sovereign Iraqi rule unfolded in the shadow cast by Paul Bremer’s last-minute edicts. Walter Pincus who covers national security affairs for the Washington Post, talks about Paul Bremer’s final decrees.
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Walter Pincus, covers national security affairs for the Washington Post

The two-day NATO summit wrapped up today in Istanbul, Turkey, with President Bush urging the alliance to take a more active role in spreading democracy around the world and with Afghanistan’s President asking for more military support.
Hear excerpts from the speeches by both President Bush and Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai.
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At 10:26 AM Iraq time, the United States formally transferred power to Iraq’s interim government today. In going into Iraq 15 months ago, the U.S. administration aimed to take on what it said was a key component of the war on terror and to create a new democracy in Iraq that will spark regionwide change.
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U.S. administrator Paul Bremer is out and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is now in control. U.S. officials hope the transfer of sovereignty back to the Iraqis will help take the steam out of the insurgency.
The challenges for the new government are enormous and the future is uncertain. Its major tasks will be [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that U.S. detainees held as enemy combatants can have access to American courts to challenge their detentions. The three cases under consideration were Hamdi vs. Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld vs. Padilla and Rasul vs. Bush, named for the Guantanamo Bay detainee Shafiq Rasul.
The decisions were a setback for the Bush administration [...]

Geoffrey Canada grew up in the South Bronx. His father abandoned the family when Canada was 4 years old. His mother raised him and his three brothers, supporting the family on low-paid jobs and welfare. Now the organization that Canada runs, Harlem Children’s Zone, is going door-to-door trying to find families like [...]

Today, U.S. airstrikes killed up to 25 people in Fallujah in an attempt to destroy a suspected safehouse for members of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi’s terror network. That network was responsible for most of the attacks yesterday in Iraq that left over 100 dead, and it has been responsible for a series of attacks in recent [...]

This past week in the news:
1) South Korean translator Kim Sun-Il is beheaded by his Islamic terrorist captors in Iraq.
2) President Bush says newly declassified memos prove that the administration does not condone torture.
3) A series of attacks in several Iraqi cities kill over 100, just days before next week’s transfer of sovereignty.
4) In an [...]

Two bombings shook the Turkish cities of Ankara and Istanbul yesterday, just days before the NATO Summit in Instanbul is scheduled to take place. But, the Turkish government is offering reassurances that in spite of the recent violence, security is sufficiently strong and the country is secure.
Turkey is often held up as the shining example [...]

Insurgents killed 75 people and wounded more than 250 today in a wave of attacks across Iraq aimed at Iraqi security forces in the Sunni Muslim cities of Baquba, Falluja, Ramadi and Mosul. A group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab Zarqawi, who Washington says has links to al Qaeda.
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Matthew McAllester, Middle East correspondent for [...]

During the Cold War, the Pentagon’s strategic map of the world divided East from West. The War on Terror has provided an immediate focus, but Thomas Barnett, Naval War College professor and Defense Department analyst, has an even bigger, bolder vision for the future of America’s military.
Barnett’s world falls in two parts: “the functioning [...]

Earlier today in Iraq, over 100 people, including three American soldiers, were killed in a wave of terror attacks in six cities across the country. Matthew McAllister, Middle East correspondent for Newsday in Baghdad, describes the attacks that claimed so many lives today.
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