Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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View Article  Legal system, media unfair to Conrad Black, says U.S. lawyer
by DavidAkin on Thu 07 Sep 2006 08:49 AM EDT

Washington lawyer Alykhan Velshi is almost certain to make the Christmas Card list of Lord and Lady Black with this defence of Conrad’s legal troubles:

“The trial by attrition of Conrad Black has exposed the dark underbelly of the legal system, where the government can ruin a man, take his ...   more »

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View Article  James Fallows on unholy wars, terrorists and evildoers
by DavidAkin on Thu 07 Sep 2006 08:42 AM EDT

James Fallows, writing in the September issue of The Atlantic Monthly, makes a point about the language we, in the West, use to desribe Arabic phenomenon:

“Jim Guirard, a writer and former [U.S.] Senate staffer … has assembled, with the advice of Islamic scholars and think-tank officials, an ...   more »

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