Word: annelies
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...would have hoped that Harvard would be above it all. Like it or not, as the nation's best-known university, Harvard occupies the position of intellectual standard-bearer for millions of people. For the university whose professors appear everywhere from "Nova" to "Ann Landers" to provide the same honors to a murderer as to her victim is not only an insult to the family and friends of Trang Ho, it is downright irresponsible. It perpetuates the message that anything is forgivable, so long as you yourself are a victim...
...major legislative committee. So far this year, D'Amato has leveraged his Banking Committee power to raise $14 million for Senate candidates and open the wallets of Wall Street for Bob Dole, who calls him "the man who won't take yes for an answer." Common Cause president Ann McBride doesn't share Dole's sense of humor on the subject. "When the Banking chairman comes calling as the party's chief fund raiser," she says, "and comes on in a particularly aggressive way, it isn't a scandal waiting to happen. It's a scandal right...
...rights by CIA assets was less than endemic. In Latin America, however, where state security apparatuses are notorious for incorrigible corruption and brutality, many observers--including some middle-of-the-road members of Congress--believe a que sera attitude is insufficient. As a case in point, human-rights activist Ann Manuel cites the CIA's liaison with Honduras' infamous Battalion 316 during the years when the country was considered an essential anti-Sandinista bulwark. "For four years," she says, "you had U.S. training of a special-intelligence unit, specifically instructing them not to torture, yet they systematically tortured...
...With reporting by Ann Blackman, James Carney and Suneel Ratan/Washington
...Reported by Ann Blackman/Washington and Mark Shuman/Chicago