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...Class of 2008 will represent similar demographics to those of preceding classes. There is a slight increase in students hailing from the Midwest and from abroad, while slightly fewer students will come from the East and West coasts...
Congress and the White House put new pressure on the visa processing system following Sept. 11. But it wasn’t until the summer of 2002, when scholars abroad first planned to join their classes in the United States, that students—and the administrators who helped to bring them into the country—first began feeling shockwaves from the new procedures...
...Washington, in Cambridge and abroad, many continue to wonder where the line between national security and openness to the foreign braintrust ought to fall...
Extremists and guerrilla warriors tend to be less malleable than criminals, however. And since the military and government agencies operating abroad function with fewer legal constraints, they take more risks. Last spring the Department of Defense finalized a secret "stress matrix" detailing dozens of tactics that could and could not be used at Guantanamo. The document, described to TIME by a lawyer close to the process, permits sleep and sensory deprivation, among other things, under certain conditions. Depending on the personality of suspects, these strategies can be effective, experts say. The idea is to disorient prisoners to the point...
...information was being leaked to the media. It is possible, U.S. officials say, that Mayfield's print ended up on the bag innocently. A lawyer who prays regularly at a Beaverton, Ore., mosque, Mayfield may have used the bag to send something to a contact in the U.S. or abroad. "The case is exceedingly flimsy," says Mayfield's lawyer Tom Nelson, adding that his client hasn't left the U.S. since...