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SFGate.com: Lawmakers Blast Yahoo Executives for Helping China Jail Dissident. While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, said at the end of the three-hour hearing.
According to Wikipedia, “[m]embers of so-called Pygmy groups often consider the term derogatory, instead preferring to be called [...]

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Senator Patrick Leahy stated that he will not be supporting the nomination of Michael Mukasey for Attorney General over the waterboarding issue. While Mr. Mukasey has indicated that our current laws prohibit waterboarding, he declined to conclude that waterboarding constituted torture. The problem in this case resides with the question and not with [...]

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