NYMHM: Trouble at the roof of the world; Terror trial jury blackout

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NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * Vol. 6, No. 52

Editor's note: For the next two weeks, NYMHM will be on an abbreviated  
schedule. Thank you for your readership and happy holidays!


  > Trouble at the Roof of the World

    Water rights and free speech are the latest
    sparks that have inflamed protests in Tibet
    against the Chinese government.

    Hundreds of nomads -- yak herders and others
    whose way of life seems to exist outside of
    politics and time -- fought with police last
    month after a disagreement involving three ...

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  > Judge Calls for Terror Trial Jury Blackout

    A federal judge in Miami ordered jurors to be
    selected anonymously in the upcoming retrial
    of an alleged terrorist cell, citing concerns
    about the potential for jury tampering.

    The move, which is sometimes made in organized
    crime trials, will mean that potential jurors in
    the closely watched case will be referred to by
    number instead of by name.

    Jurors will also be investigated and supervised
    by the U.S. Marshals Service in order to ...

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