*  Mitt Romney will endorse John McCain; it looks as if Gore has decided to refrain from announcing an endorsement.
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*  A Justice Department official testified on the legality of waterboarding before a House Judiciary subcommittee this morning, and actually provided an unequivocal [...]

‘Darfur Now’ attempts to coax apathetic viewers into action

Darfur Now is a slick, almost uncomfortably optimistic documentary about the human catastrophe currently taking place in western Sudan. It shies away from the dramatic “this is what a genocide looks like” documentation that made the earlier The Devil Came on Horseback so chilling, preferring to envision [...]