Under this plan, the Senate could then declare a post-attack state of emergency including a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, as happened during the American civil war as long as it did so with an escalating majority every two months.

ECONOMIST: Civil liberties

However, several of those, including one originally scheduled for this coming weekend at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas, had been canceled with the expectation that the budget cuts would force the Navy's hand.

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And they really go into depth examining Cheney's behind the scenes role in remaking the president's war powers, including subverting the Geneva Conventions and, you know, holding detainees without habeas corpus review.

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The fifth Shorter Oxford was the first edition compiled entirely from a computerised corpus of English citations, a rapidly growing monster with 100m entries (including 300, mainly economic, from this newspaper).

ECONOMIST: English language

To minimise the risk of including random concatenations of words, rare spellings or mistakes, any word or expression had to appear in the corpus at least 40 times to merit inclusion in the final, chronologically ordered set.

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