Letter fromt the editor.

• Author: Rebhun, Elliott
• Position: Letter to the editor

Our cover story looks at the breakdown of the system of justice across much of Africa, where prisoners can wait years for their trials, while being held in horrible conditions.

In two other stories, we see how events abroad reverberate at home. At a number of U.S. colleges, students are debating whether campus newspapers should publish the controversial Danish cartoons satirizing Muhammad. And in the virtual world, Google and other...