Word: alberto
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Friday’s event took inspiration from a January visit to Georgetown by U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzalez that was met by several protesting students donning the Abu Gharib garb...
...Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69. “You lose credibility in a way if you’re not careful about how good a case you make—that’s an important variable that people miss.”QUALITY CONTROLEconomics Department Chair Alberto F. Alesina says Summers’ critical approach serves as an important check on the quality of tenure appointments.“We have been even more careful in what we brought up,” Alesina says. “For other departments it might have been a little...
...first clear warning sign came in January 2005 during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Reinterpreting the meaning of a U.S. reservation to the Convention Against Torture, Gonzales claimed that the treaty’s prohibition of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” (also known as “CID”) did not apply to non-Americans held by U.S. forces outside the United States. Other governments abuse detainees clandestinely, but the Gonzales testimony made the United States the only government in the world to affirm the power...
...several Opus officials, according to one of the group's Warsaw directors; membership there is rumored to be a political stepping-stone. In Peru, Juan Luis Cardinal Cipriani, the church's first openly Opus Dei Cardinal, was seen as having sanctioned antiterrorist excesses by the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori; he scoffed at the accusations, writing that most human-rights groups were "fronts for Marxist and Maoist political movements...
...Alberto F. Alesina, who is chair of Harvard’s economics department and Ropes professor of political economy, said Italy’s new electoral system makes it more difficult for a party that wins by a small majority to govern because the system is less “winner-take-all” and more “proportional...