Word: amar
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...instead of arguing with Finkelman’s contention that Scott was not a citizen, Yale Law School professor Akhil R. Amar, one of Scott’s lawyers, conceded that point while directing his fire at the more outrageous claims made in Taney’s opinion...
...When some judges pointed out that they could not decide the case in Scott’s favor if they lacked jurisdiction, Amar responded that the case is remembered for the sweeping propositions made by Taney, not the actual effect of depriving one man of his freedom...
...HIPJ members handed out anti-war patches and posters. “We want people to wear and post their anti-war voice to show decision-makers our dissent,” said Kaveri Rajaraman, a third-year graduate student of molecular and cellular biology and an HIPJ member. Amar Abbas, a German visitor whose family lives in Iraq, said he appreciated the anti-war protests. “It’s really exciting to see students demonstrating after four years of craziness in Iraq,” he said. Karen Carmean and Doane Perry, a Cantabrigian couple, joined...
...proposal says part of the effort would be run through a foundation operated by Amar Abdulhamid, a Washington-based member of a Syrian umbrella opposition group known as the National Salvation Front (NSF). The Front includes the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization that for decades supported the violent overthrow of the Syrian government, but now says it seeks peaceful, democratic reform. (In Syria, however, membership in the Brotherhood is still punishable by death.) Another member of the NSF is Abdul Halim Khaddam, a former high-ranking Syrian official and Assad family loyalist who recently went into exile after a political...
...five days last December, Zimbabwean officials jailed thesis researcher Amar C. Bakshi ’06 on charges of espionage. During his brush with authority, one thing he did not have to worry about was the safety of his interviewees.Long before, in Cambridge, Mass., Bakshi had worked with the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research, which reviewed his methods to make sure neither he nor his research subjects would be endangered.“When interrogated, I never divulged real names, and instead used the fictive names concocted beforehand,” said Bakshi...