Stephen Gottlieb: Due process & targeted assassination

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:28:51 +0000

Tasked with helping draft a constitution for India after World War II, B. N. Rau traveled abroad speaking to jurists. In Washington, Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter advised Rau not to include a due process clause in the Indian Constitution. Instead India should have a clause simply requiring that no one be charged with a crime but by the law of the land. That was the meaning of the Magna Carta in 1215 which said:

No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned … or in any way destroyed … except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

CIA Awards Tonight

Dave Lucas — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:02:12 +0000

The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park is presenting its 2012
Leadership Awards tonight - Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Dave Lucas has
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The New York gala is an annual scholarship fundraiser for The Culinary
Institute of America, which for more than six decades has been setting
the standard for excellence in professional culinary education.

1978 CIA graduate Chef Dean Fearing made the trip up from Dallas, Texas.