Obituaries in the news
Obituaries in the news Carl Ballantine Women’s college basketball gets plenty of A’s on report card for diversity in coaching hiresINDIANAPOLIS — Women’s college basketball is getting good marks in racial diversity for its coaching hires. Latino pastor group to illegal immigrants: Stand up, but don’t be counted, in censusNEWARK, N.J. — A nationwide group of Latino ministers has a message for illegal immigrants: Stand up, but refuse to be counted in the 2010 U.S. census. 45 years after Freedom Summer, Miss. quietly gets rid of laws meant to thwart civil rightsJACKSON, Miss. — While researching a case, attorney Ed Blackmon stumbled across leftovers of Mississippi’s segregationist past — laws enacted to discourage the fight for equal rights for blacks. DOJ interrogation memos approved waterboarding, but left unanswered: Does torture work?WASHINGTON — Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers waterboarded terrorism suspects in clandestine prisons. |