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This is the archive for 13 October 2007

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Compiled from Courier staff reports


Groupwise's web inteface, when it works.
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Ongoing troubles with the New Haven School District’s relatively new email system, called Groupwise, resulted in email being unavailable Thursday morning, and frustratingly slow and unreliable when has been available.

Principal Don Montoya took to the James Logan public address system Thursday morning to tell his staff about the outage. He announced that the system was again available at about noon.
By James Oliphant
Chicago Tribune (MCT)


The Supreme Court building.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Tuesday declined to allow a lawsuit to go forward that questions the government's use of rendition, the controversial practice of capturing suspected terrorists and sending them to other countries for a more intense form of interrogation than permitted under U.S. law.

In doing so, the court implicitly endorsed the administration's use of a sweeping legal defense that prevents claims of abuse and torture at the hands of U.S interrogators from ever being heard in court.