Sunday, March 21, 2004

The Victorian Coroner is under fire for providing an anti-abortion senator with the hospital records of a woman who terminated her pregnancy at eight months.

As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, she studied the difficulties of former prisoners trying to find work and, in the process, came up with a disturbing finding: it is easier for a white person with a felony conviction to get a job than for a black person whose record is clean.

This atrocity was carried out by extremists who sat down with train timetables and maps of suburban rail routes, to carefully - mathematically - plot how they would plant backpacks carrying plastic explosives on four passenger trains.

The Guardian on Saturday quoted Cavanagh from the book: "A company realises that its customers, who are predominantly white, tend to prefer to do business with white staff.
"Depending on how strong this preference is, it might be rational for the company to discriminate against black applicants on the basis that, for this reason alone, they tend to be less good at the job."

Mr. Fidell said there was no reason Yee's trial could not have been conducted, as the lawyers for both sides had high security clearances and no information needed to have been publicly exposed.

Officials first suggested his participation in a plot to infiltrate the base and told his lawyers that they might seek the death penalty.

Army officials suggested in December at a hearing at Fort Benning, Ga., that he had documents relating to the detainees. Since his arrest, the detainees have not had a Muslim chaplain. Officials say they minister to their own religious needs.













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